Report from the EUCAST Subcommittee on the Role of Whole Genome Sequencing ( WGS ) in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria . Version 1 , 2016

1) Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark 2) Servicio de Microbiología. Hospital Ramón y Cajal and Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria, Madrid, Spain 3) Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections Reference Unit, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, England 4) Department of Clinical Microbiology and the EUCAST development laboratory, Kronoberg Region. Central hospital, Växjö, Sweden 5) Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 6) University Medical Center Freiburg, Infection Prevention and Hospital Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 7) Statens Serum Institute, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Copenhagen, Denmark 8) School of Medicine, Medical & Biological Sciences, North Haugh, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom 9) Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney and Marie Bashir Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia 10) Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 11) Department of Medical Microbiology, North Bristol NHS Trust, Southmead Hospital, Bristol 12) Central Veterinary Institute (CVI) part of Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), Lelystad, The Netherlands Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 13) National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 14) French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance, Bacteriology-Hygiene unit, Hôpital Bicêtre, APHP, LabEx LERMIT, University Paris Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France 15) Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 16) PU-PH des Disciplines Pharmaceutiques, 1URMITE CNRS IRD UMR 6236, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Valorization and Transfer, Aix Marseille Université, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, 27 Bd J Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France 17) Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance, University Hospital of North Norway, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Tromsø, Norway