About the Authors

Andrea D. Tyler

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Elaine Randell

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Government of Nunavut, Nunavut, Canada

Maureen Baikie

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Government of Nunavut, Nunavut, Canada

Kym Antonation

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Debra Janella

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Sara Christianson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gregory J. Tyrrell

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Division of Diagnostic and Applied Microbiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, The Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (Microbiology), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Morag Graham

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gary Van Domselaar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Meenu K. Sharma

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

meenu.sharma@canada.ca

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.