title: Nomenclature of fungal diseases: a report and recommendations from a Sub-Committee of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM).
abstract: The ISHAM Mycoses Nomenclature Committee has considered the present status of fungal disease names. It suggests that the traditional approach to mycoses nomenclature in which the name of a causative taxon is suffixed with '-asis', '-iasis', '-osis' or '-mycosis' leads to names that are frequently unstable with respect to subsequent taxonomic and clinico-epidemiological changes. It is therefore recommended that individual mycoses should be named as often as possible in the form 'pathology A due to/caused by fungus X' or '[adjectival] fungus X pathology A' in preference to construction of names based solely on fungal taxa. A list of recommended mycosis names retained for their long tradition or intrinsic convenience is provided, together with a combined index and list of rejected names.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bacteriology and Mycology, Janssen Research Foundation, Beerse, Belgium.
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Odds
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Disalvo
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hay
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Randhawa
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Rinaldi
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009181:Mycoses; D009626:Terminology as Topic