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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
• ³ Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
• ⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland.
• ⁵ Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.