ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported, in part, by Red Espan˜ola de
Investigacio´n en Patologı´a Infecciosa (REIPI, ISCIII, C03 ⁄ 14).
We would also like to thank the members of the Spanish
Group for the Study of Staphylococcus, who are listed in Table
S1. We thank T. O’Boyle for his help in the preparation of the
manuscript. This study was presented, in part, at the 43rd
Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
(Chicago, 2003).