About the Authors

Ilan S. Schwartz

ilan@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Nelesh P. Govender

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Lynne Sigler

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Yanping Jiang

Affiliations Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Department of Dermatology, The Affiliated Hospital, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China

Tsidiso G. Maphanga

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

Barbra Toplis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Alfred Botha

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Karolina Dukik

Affiliation Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands

J. Claire Hoving

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Jose F. Muñoz

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sybren de Hoog

Affiliations Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Center of Expertise in Mycology of RadboudUMC/ Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Christina A. Cuomo

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Colebunders

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Chris Kenyon

Affiliations Clinical Sciences Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.