About the Authors

Vanessa R. Barrs

vanessa.barrs@sydney.edu.au

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Tineke M. van Doorn

Affiliation Department of Applied and Industrial Mycology, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures- Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (CBS-KNAW) Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jos Houbraken

Affiliation Department of Applied and Industrial Mycology, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures- Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (CBS-KNAW) Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sarah E. Kidd

Affiliation Mycology Unit, SA Pathology at Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Patricia Martin

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Maria Dolores Pinheiro

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Service of Clinical Pathology, Hospital de São João, Porto, Portugal

Malcolm Richardson

Affiliation Mycology Reference Centre Manchester, Education and Research Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Janos Varga

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Robert A. Samson

Affiliation Department of Applied and Industrial Mycology, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures- Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (CBS-KNAW) Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VRB TMVD JH JV RAS. Performed the experiments: VRB TMVD SEK PM. Analyzed the data: VRB TMVD JH SEK PM JV RAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VRB TMVD JH SEK PM MDP MR JV RAS. Wrote the paper: VRB TMVD JH SEK PM MDP MR JV RAS.