Emergomyces: The global rise of new dimorphic fungal pathogens

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Autoři: Ilan S. Schwartz ^aff001; Nelesh P. Govender ^aff002; Lynne Sigler ^aff004; Yanping Jiang ^aff005; Tsidiso G. Maphanga ^aff002; Barbra Toplis ^aff008; Alfred Botha ^aff008; Karolina Dukik ^aff005; J. Claire Hoving ^aff009; Jose F. Muñoz ^aff010; Sybren de Hoog ^aff005; Christina A. Cuomo ^aff010; Robert Colebunders ^aff012; Chris Kenyon ^aff013
Působiště autorů: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ^aff001; National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa ^aff002; Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa ^aff003; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ^aff004; Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands ^aff005; Department of Dermatology, The Affiliated Hospital, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China ^aff006; University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa ^aff007; Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa ^aff008; Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa ^aff009; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America ^aff010; Center of Expertise in Mycology of RadboudUMC/ Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands ^aff011; Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium ^aff012; Clinical Sciences Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium ^aff013; Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa ^aff014
Vyšlo v časopise: Emergomyces: The global rise of new dimorphic fungal pathogens. PLoS Pathog 15(9): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1007977
Kategorie: Pearls
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007977

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