Melissa C. MACKINNON (1), Kathryn MCDONALD (1), Hailey SILVER (1), Ketna MISTRY (2), Audrey CHARLEBOIS (2), Agnes AGUNOS (1), Ashley KEARNEY (2), Jennifer CAMPBELL (2), Sara CHRISTIANSON (2), Celine NADON (2), David C. ALEXANDER (3,4), Sadjia BEKAL (5,6), Linda CHUI (7,8), Ian DAVIS (9), Xiaofeng DING (10), Tanis C. DINGLE (11,12), Gabriel GIROUARD (13), Jennifer GRANT (14), Camille HAMULA (15), Linda HOANG (14), Samir PATEL (16), Robert TAYLOR (17), Antoine CORBEIL (16), Amrita BHARAT (2), Richard J. REID-SMITH (1), Carolee A. CARSON (1), 1: Infectious Disease and Vaccination Programs Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada;
2: National Microbiology Laboratory Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada;
3: Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Diagnostic Services, Shared Health, Winnipeg, MB, Canada;
4: Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada;
5: Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada;
6: Département de Microbiologie, Infectiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada;
7: Alberta Precision Laboratories, Public Health Laboratory, Edmonton, AB, Canada;
8: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada;
9: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada;
10: Provincial Laboratory Services, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown, PE, Canada;
11: Alberta Precision Laboratories, Public Health Laboratory, Calgary, AB, Canada;
12: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;
13: Centre hospitalier universitaire Dr-Georges-L.-Dumont, Réseau de santé Vitalité, Moncton, NB, Canada;
14: Public Health Laboratory, British Columbia Center for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada;
15: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine, Saskatoon, SK, Canada;
16: Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada;
17: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Newfoundland and Labrador Public Health and Microbiology Laboratory, St. John’s, NL, Canada