About the Authors

Fábio Brito-Santos

Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gláucia Gonçalves Barbosa

Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luciana Trilles

Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marília Martins Nishikawa

Affiliation National Institute for Quality Control in Health, INCQS/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Bodo Wanke

Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Wieland Meyer

Affiliations Mycology Laboratory, Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Sydney Medical School-Westmead Hospital, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Filipe Anibal Carvalho-Costa

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Systematics, Institute Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Márcia dos Santos Lazéra

marcia.lazera@ipec.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSL BW FACC FBS. Performed the experiments: FBS GGB LT MMN. Analyzed the data: FBS BW WM FACC LT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW WM FACC MSL. Wrote the paper: FBS GGB LT BW WM FACC MMN MSL.