1. Department of Bacteria, Parasites, and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, Institut des Agents Infectieux, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
3. Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
4. Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
5. Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
6. Pathology Queensland Central Laboratory, Griffith University School of Medicine, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
7. National Reference Laboratory for Staphylococci, Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
8. Service of Hospital Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
9. Laboratory Medicine, Jönköping, Region Jönköping County, Sweden
10. Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
11. Department of Clinical Molecular Biology (EpiGen), Division of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
12. Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
13. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
14. Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15. Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark