About the Authors

Olga Tosas Auguet

olga.tosasauguet@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jason R. Betley

Affiliation Illumina, Cambridge Limited, Chesterford Research Park, Little Chesterford, Essex, United Kingdom

Richard A. Stabler

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Amita Patel

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Avgousta Ioannou

Affiliation Illumina, Cambridge Limited, Chesterford Research Park, Little Chesterford, Essex, United Kingdom

Helene Marbach

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Pasco Hearn

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Anna Aryee

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Simon D. Goldenberg

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan A. Otter

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Nergish Desai

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, King's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Tacim Karadag

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University Hospital Lewisham, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Chris Grundy

Affiliation Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Michael W. Gaunt

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Ben S. Cooper

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Bangkok, Thailand

Jonathan D. Edgeworth

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Theodore Kypraios

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, University Park, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OTA CG MWG BSC JDE TKy. Performed the experiments: OTA JRB RAS AP AI HM PH MWG. Analyzed the data: OTA RAS MWG BSC TKy. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRB RAS AI ND TKa CG MWG. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: OTA TKy. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: OTA SDG JAO AA BSC JDE TKy. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: OTA JRB RAS AP AI HM PH AA SDG JAO ND TKa CG MWG BSC JDE TKy. Collected all positive MRSA isolates from participant laboratories during the study period: ND TKa AP. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.