About the Authors

Shuwen Deng

Affiliations Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China, First Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Xinjiang, China, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Clement K. M. Tsui

Affiliation British Columbia Public Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory at BCCDC site, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, Canada

A. H. G. Gerrits van den Ende

Affiliation CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Liyue Yang

Affiliation CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Mohammad Javad Najafzadeh

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology & Cancer Molecular Pathology Research Center, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Hamid Badali

Affiliation Department of Medical Mycology and Parasitology / Invasive Fungi Research Center (IFRC), School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Ruoyu Li

Affiliation Research Center for Medical Mycology, Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China

Ferry Hagen

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jacques F. Meis

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jiufeng Sun

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China

Somayeh Dolatabadi

Affiliations CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran

Bernard Papierok

Affiliation Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

Weihua Pan

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China

G. S. de Hoog

de.hoog@cbs.knaw.nl (GSdH); liaowanqing@sohu.com (WL)

Affiliations Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Research Center for Medical Mycology, Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China, Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Wanqing Liao

de.hoog@cbs.knaw.nl (GSdH); liaowanqing@sohu.com (WL)

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD GSdH. Performed the experiments: LY MJN HB FH JS SD. Analyzed the data: CKMT AHGGvdE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CKMT AHGGvdE JFM. Wrote the paper: SD GSdH. Strains offered: RL BP WP. Conceived and revised paper: CKMT WL.