About the Authors

Popchai Ngamskulrungroj

Affiliations Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, The University of Sydney Western Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Felix Gilgado

Affiliations Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, The University of Sydney Western Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Josiane Faganello

Affiliation Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Anastasia P. Litvintseva

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ana Lusia Leal

Affiliation Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Kin Ming Tsui

Affiliations Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, The University of Sydney Western Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Thomas G. Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Marilene Henning Vainstein

Affiliation Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Wieland Meyer

w.meyer@usyd.edu.au

Affiliations Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, The University of Sydney Western Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PN WM. Performed the experiments: PN FG JF APL ALL. Analyzed the data: PN FG KMT WM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TGM MHV WM. Wrote the paper: PN WM. Correction of the paper: WM FG APL TGM MHV.