50 Years of Emmonsia Disease in Humans: The Dramatic Emergence of a Cluster of Novel Fungal Pathogens

Ilan S Schwartz; Chris Kenyon; Peiying Feng; Nelesh P Govender; Karolina Dukik; Lynne Sigler; Yanping Jiang; J Benjamin Stielow; José F Muñoz; Christina A Cuomo; Alfred Botha; Alberto M Stchigel; G Sybren de Hoog

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005198

50 Years of Emmonsia Disease in Humans: The Dramatic Emergence of a Cluster of Novel Fungal Pathogens

PLoS Pathog. 2015 Nov 19;11(11):e1005198. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005198. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Ilan S Schwartz^{1

2}, Chris Kenyon^{3

4}, Peiying Feng⁵, Nelesh P Govender^{4

6}, Karolina Dukik⁷, Lynne Sigler⁸, Yanping Jiang⁹, J Benjamin Stielow⁷, José F Muñoz^{10

11}, Christina A Cuomo¹², Alfred Botha¹³, Alberto M Stchigel¹⁴, G Sybren de Hoog⁷

Affiliations

¹ International Health Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
² Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
³ Sexually Transmitted Infection Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁴ University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
⁶ National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁷ CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁸ University of Alberta Microfungus Collection and Herbarium, Devonian Botanic Garden, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁹ Department of Dermatology, The Affiliated Hospital, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
¹⁰ Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB), Medellín, Colombia.
¹¹ Institute of Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
¹² Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
¹³ Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.
¹⁴ Mycology Unit, Medical School & Pere Virgili Institute for Health Research, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Chrysosporium / genetics
Chrysosporium / pathogenicity*
Fungi / genetics
Fungi / pathogenicity*
Genetic Variation / genetics
Humans
Mycoses / genetics
Mycoses / microbiology*
Spores, Fungal / genetics*
Spores, Fungal / pathogenicity*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by a research grant from Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek—Vlaanderen (G051414N); an Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases-Astellas post-residency research fellowship and Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme grant (to ISS); and funding from Colciencias Doctorate Program, Colciencias grant 1222-56934875, and Universidad de Antioquia “Sostenibilidad" 2014/15 (to JFM). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.