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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Kalmar County Hospital, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
• ² Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ³ Public Health Agency of Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Unit of Laboratory Surveillance of Bacterial Pathogens, Solna, Sweden.
• ⁴ Unit of Medical Microbiology of the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical and Global Health and Tropical Medicine from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ⁵ FIND, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁶ EUCAST Development Laboratory, Växjö, Sweden; Department of Clinical Microbiology, Central Hospital, Växjö, Sweden.
• ⁷ EUCAST Development Laboratory, Växjö, Sweden; Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁸ National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany.
• ⁹ EUCAST Development Laboratory, Växjö, Sweden; CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Université Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France; Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, Institut des Agent infectieux, Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
• ¹⁰ EUCAST Development Laboratory, Växjö, Sweden; Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
• ¹¹ Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
• ¹² University of Zagreb, School of Medicine University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Clinic for Respiratory Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia.
• ¹³ Translational Research Unit, National Institute for Infectious Diseases "L. Spallanzani" IRCCS, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Emerging Bacterial Pathogens, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁶ APHP-GHU Nord site Bichat, Service de Mycobactériologie Spécialisée et de Référence, Laboratoire Associé du Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux (CNR-MyRMA), Paris, France; Université de Paris, INSERM, IAME UMR1137, Paris, France. Electronic address: emmanuelle.cambau@aphp.fr.