About the Authors

Matthew C Fisher

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: matthew.fisher@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, St Mary's Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

William P Hanage

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, St Mary's Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Sybren de Hoog

Affiliation Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Elizabeth Johnson

Affiliation Mycology Reference Laboratory, Health Protection Agency, Bristol, United Kingdom

Michael D Smith

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Taunton and Somerset Hospital, Taunton, United Kingdom

Nicholas J White

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Nongnuch Vanittanakom

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MCF conceived and designed the experiments. MCF and NV performed the experiments. MCF and BH analyzed the data. SdH, EJ, MDS, NJW, and NV contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. MCF wrote the paper.