Travis Salway Hottes, MSc¹, Richard T. Lester, MD, FRCPC¹, Linda MN Hoang, MD², Rachel McKay, MSc³, Miguel Imperial, MD, FRCPC², Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC¹, David Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc³, Tom Wong, MD, MPH, FRCPC⁴, Irene Martin, BSc⁵ and Gina Ogilvie, MD, MSc, CCFP, FCFP, DrPH¹, 1Clinical Prevention Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2Laboratory Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Services, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 4Professional Guidelines and Public Health Practice Division, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 5Streptococcus and STI Unit, National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, MB, Canada