Acknowledgments
This study was supported by grants fromthe National Research University
Project (NRU MIH-2554-M-07) and Faculty of Medicine, Khon
Kaen University, Thailand. The authors thank the staff of the Clinical
Microbiology Laboratory Unit, Srinagarind Hospital, Research and Diagnostic
Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine,
Khon Kaen University and Khon Kaen Hospital for collecting the clinical
bacterial isolates. We would like to acknowledge Prof. David Blair for
editing the manuscript via Publication Clinic, Khon Kaen University,
Thailand. Icddr,b is grateful to the Governments of Bangladesh,
Canada, Sweden, and the UK for providing core/unrestricted support