1. Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands1;
2. Central Public Health Laboratory, London NW9 5HT, United Kingdom2;
3. Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, 69437 Lyon Cedex 3, France3;
4. Creighton University School of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Omaha, Nebraska 681784;
5. Nosocomial Pathogens Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 303335;
6. School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth 6845, Australia6;
7. Department of Microbiology, Medical School, National University of Athens, 115 27 Athens, Greece7;
8. Institut Pasteur, Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France8;
9. Department of Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme, 1070 Brussels, Belgium9;
10. National Public Health Institute, 00300 Helsinki, Finland10;
11. Regional Laboratory for Public Health, 9700 RM Groningen, The Netherlands11; and
12. Robert Koch Institute BGA, D-38855 Wernigerode, Germany12