About the Authors

Serisha D. Naicker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

serishan@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses), a Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Carolina Firacative

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Studies in Translational Microbiology and Emerging Diseases (MICROS) Research Group, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia

Erika van Schalkwyk

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses), a Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Tsidiso G. Maphanga

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses), a Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Juan Monroy-Nieto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathogen and Microbiome Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jolene R. Bowers

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathogen and Microbiome Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

David M. Engelthaler

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathogen and Microbiome Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Wieland Meyer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Research and Educational Network, Westmead Hospital, Western Sydney Local Health District, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Nelesh P. Govender

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses), a Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

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Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.