About the Authors
- Kevin Kurt
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Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
- Jean-Philippe Rasigade
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Affiliation National Reference Center for Staphylococci, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
- Frederic Laurent
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Affiliation National Reference Center for Staphylococci, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
- Richard V. Goering
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Affiliation Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
- Helena Žemličková
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Affiliation National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic
- Ivana Machova
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Affiliation National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic
- Marc J. Struelens
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Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
- Andreas E. Zautner
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Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Silva Holtfreter
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Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
- Barbara Bröker
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Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
- Stephen Ritchie
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Sin Reaksmey
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Affiliation Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia
- Direk Limmathurotsakul
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Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Sharon J. Peacock
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Affiliations Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Christiane Cuny
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Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
- Franziska Layer
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Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
- Wolfgang Witte
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Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
- Ulrich Nübel
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* E-mail: nuebelu@rki.de
Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Contributed to editing the manuscript: JR F. Laurent RVG HZ MJS AEZ SH BB S. Ritchie S. Reaksmey DL SJP. Provided the idea to study the lukS/F vs. eta/etb gene dichotomy in ST121: WW. Conceived and designed the experiments: KK WW UN. Performed the experiments: KK. Analyzed the data: KK F. Layer UN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR F. Laurent RVG HZ MJS AEZ SH BB S. Ritchie S. Reaksmey DL SJP CC WW IM. Wrote the paper: KK CC F. Layer WW UN.