Name changes in medically important fungi and their implications for clinical practice

G Sybren de Hoog; Vishnu Chaturvedi; David W Denning; Paul S Dyer; Jens Christian Frisvad; David Geiser; Yvonne Gräser; Josep Guarro; Gerhard Haase; Kyung-Joo Kwon-Chung; Jacques F Meis; Wieland Meyer; John I Pitt; Robert A Samson; John W Taylor; Kathrin Tintelnot; Roxana G Vitale; Thomas J Walsh; Michaela Lackner; ISHAM Working Group on Nomenclature of Medical Fungi

doi:10.1128/JCM.02016-14

Name changes in medically important fungi and their implications for clinical practice

J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Apr;53(4):1056-62. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02016-14. Epub 2014 Oct 8.

Authors

G Sybren de Hoog¹, Vishnu Chaturvedi², David W Denning³, Paul S Dyer⁴, Jens Christian Frisvad⁵, David Geiser⁶, Yvonne Gräser⁷, Josep Guarro⁸, Gerhard Haase⁹, Kyung-Joo Kwon-Chung¹⁰, Jacques F Meis¹¹, Wieland Meyer¹², John I Pitt¹³, Robert A Samson¹⁴, John W Taylor¹⁵, Kathrin Tintelnot¹⁶, Roxana G Vitale¹⁷, Thomas J Walsh¹⁸, Michaela Lackner¹⁹; ISHAM Working Group on Nomenclature of Medical Fungi

Collaborators

ISHAM Working Group on Nomenclature of Medical Fungi:
Teun Boekhout, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Anuradha Chowdhary, Garry Cole, Olivier A Cornely, Pedro W Crous, Christophe D'Enfert, Dea Garcia-Hermoso, D David Ellis, Cornelia Lass-Flörl, Stuart Levitz, Ruo-Yu Li, Aaron P Mitchell, Kerry O'Donnell, John R Perfect, Flavio Queiroz Telles, Deanna A Sutton, Kerstin Voigt, Theodore C White, Liyan Xi

Affiliations

¹ 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.
² Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.
³ Education and Research Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
⁴ School of Life Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
⁵ Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Department of Systems Biology-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
⁶ Department of Plant Pathology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁷ Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Charité, Berlin, Germany.
⁸ Mycology Unit, Medical School and IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
⁹ Institute of Medical Microbiology and DLZ, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.
¹⁰ Molecular Microbiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
¹¹ 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.
¹² Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, CIDM, Sydney Medical School-Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹³ Food Science Australia, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
¹⁴ CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁵ Fungal Evolution and Genomics, Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Michaela.Lackner@i-med.ac.at jtaylor@berkeley.edu.
¹⁶ Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁷ Departamento de Micologia, CONICET, and Hospital JM Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁸ Mycology Research Laboratory, Weill Cornell University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
¹⁹ Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Michaela.Lackner@i-med.ac.at jtaylor@berkeley.edu.

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.

MeSH terms

Fungi / classification
Humans
Infectious Disease Medicine
Mycology
Mycoses / microbiology*
Terminology as Topic