About the Authors

Kennio Ferreira-Paim

Affiliations Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Marie Bashir Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney Medical School-Westmead Hospital, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Infectious Disease Department, Triangulo Mineiro Federal University, Uberaba, Brazil

Leonardo Andrade-Silva

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Triangulo Mineiro Federal University, Uberaba, Brazil

Fernanda M. Fonseca

Affiliation Biomedicine Department, Federal University of Piauí, Parnaíba, Brazil

Thatiana B. Ferreira

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Triangulo Mineiro Federal University, Uberaba, Brazil

Delio J. Mora

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Triangulo Mineiro Federal University, Uberaba, Brazil

Juliana Andrade-Silva

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Triangulo Mineiro Federal University, Uberaba, Brazil

Aziza Khan

Affiliation Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Marie Bashir Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney Medical School-Westmead Hospital, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Aiken Dao

Affiliation Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Marie Bashir Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney Medical School-Westmead Hospital, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Eduardo C. Reis

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Faculty of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil

Margarete T. G. Almeida

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Faculty of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil

Andre Maltos

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Triangulo Mineiro Federal University, Uberaba, Brazil

Virmondes R. Junior

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Triangulo Mineiro Federal University, Uberaba, Brazil

Luciana Trilles

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Volker Rickerts

Affiliation Mycology Section, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Ariya Chindamporn

Affiliation Mycology Unit, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Jane E. Sykes

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California, Davis, United States of America

Massimo Cogliati

Affiliation Laboratorio Micologia Medica, Dip. Scienze Biomediche per la Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Kirsten Nielsen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Mississippi, United States of America

Teun Boekhout

Affiliation Department of Yeast and Basidiomycete Research, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Matthew Fisher

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom

June Kwon-Chung

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David M. Engelthaler

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Marcia Lazéra

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Wieland Meyer

wieland.meyer@sydney.edu.au

Affiliation Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Marie Bashir Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney Medical School-Westmead Hospital, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Mario L. Silva-Vergara

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Triangulo Mineiro Federal University, Uberaba, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KFP WM MLSV. Data curation: KFP LT WM MLSV. Formal analysis: KFP. Funding acquisition: KFP WM MLSV. Investigation: KFP LAS FMF TBF DJM JAS AK AD ECR MTGA AM VRJ. Methodology: KFP LAS FMF TBF DJM JAS AK AD ECR MTGA AM VRJ. Project administration: KFP WM MLSV. Resources: LT VR AC JES MC KN TB MF JKC DME ML WM MLSV. Software: KFP. Supervision: WM MLSV. Validation: KFP LAS FMF TBF DJM JAS AK AD ECR MTGA AM VRJ LT WM MLSV. Visualization: KFP. Writing – original draft: KFP WM MLSV. Writing – review & editing: MTGA AM VRJ LT VR AC JES MC KN TB MF JKC DME ML WM MLSV.