title: Name changes in medically important fungi and their implications for clinical practice.
abstract: Recent changes in the Fungal Code of Nomenclature and developments in molecular phylogeny are about to lead to dramatic changes in the naming of medically important molds and yeasts. In this article, we present a widely supported and simple proposal to prevent unnecessary nomenclatural instability.
authors.affiliation: CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Peking University Health Science Center, Research Center for Medical Mycology, Beijing, China, Sun Yat-sen Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China, Basic Pathology Department, Federal University of Paraná State, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, and King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: G Sybren
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: de Hoog
authors.affiliation: Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Vishnu
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chaturvedi
authors.affiliation: Education and Research Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Denning
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Paul S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Dyer
authors.affiliation: Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Department of Systems Biology-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
authors.forename: Jens Christian
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Frisvad
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Geiser
authors.affiliation: Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Charité, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gräser
authors.affiliation: Mycology Unit, Medical School and IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
authors.forename: Josep
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guarro
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Microbiology and DLZ, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Haase
authors.affiliation: Molecular Microbiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Kyung-Joo
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Kwon-Chung
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jacques F
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3253-6080
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Meis
authors.affiliation: Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, CIDM, Sydney Medical School-Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Wieland
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.affiliation: Food Science Australia, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: John I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Pitt
authors.affiliation: CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Samson
authors.affiliation: Fungal Evolution and Genomics, Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Michaela.Lackner@i-med.ac.at jtaylor@berkeley.edu.
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.affiliation: Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Kathrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tintelnot
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Micologia, CONICET, and Hospital JM Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Roxana G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Vitale
authors.affiliation: Mycology Research Laboratory, Weill Cornell University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.affiliation: Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Michaela.Lackner@i-med.ac.at jtaylor@berkeley.edu.
authors.forename: Michaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lackner
mesh_terms: D005658:Fungi / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D055552:Infectious Disease Medicine; D009172:Mycology; D009181:Mycoses / Q000382:microbiology*; D009626:Terminology as Topic