About the Authors

Marcio Nucci

mnucci@hucff.ufrj.br

Affiliation University Hospital, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Flavio Queiroz-Telles

Affiliation Hospital de Clinicas, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

Tito Alvarado-Matute

Affiliation Hospital Escuela, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Iris Nora Tiraboschi

Affiliation Hospital de Clinicas Jose de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jorge Cortes

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

Jeannete Zurita

Affiliation Hospital Vozandes. Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Manuel Guzman-Blanco

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Hospital Vargas de Caracas and Centro Medico de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

Maria Elena Santolaya

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna; Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Luis Thompson

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Clinica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile

Jose Sifuentes-Osornio

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico

Juan I. Echevarria

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Arnaldo L. Colombo

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

on behalf of the Latin American Invasive Mycosis Network

Membership of the Latin American Invasive Mycosis Network is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Reviewed the manuscript, significantly contributed to its scientific content and approved the final version of it: MN FQT TAM INT JC JZ MGB MES LT JIE JSO ALC. Conceived and designed the experiments: MN ALC. Performed the experiments: MN FQT TAM INT JC JZ MGB MES LT ALC. Analyzed the data: MN ALC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN FQT TAM INT JC JZ MGB MES LT JIE JSO ALC. Wrote the paper: MN.