Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals a Cryptic Species Blastomyces gilchristii, sp. nov. within the Human Pathogenic Fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis

• Elizabeth M. Brown,

  Affiliations Public Health Laboratories Toronto, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Lisa R. McTaggart ,

  * E-mail: lisa.mctaggart@oahpp.ca

  Affiliation Public Health Laboratories Toronto, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sean X. Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Division of Medical Microbiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Donald E. Low,

  Affiliations Public Health Laboratories Toronto, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• David A. Stevens,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California, United States of America

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• Susan E. Richardson

  Affiliations Public Health Laboratories Toronto, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Microbiology, Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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