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

G Sybren de Hoog (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) , Vishnu Chaturvedi (7) , David Denning (8) , Paul S Dyer (9) , Jens Christian Frisvad (10) , David Geiser (11) , Yvonne Gräser (12) , Josep Guarro (13) , Gerhard Haase (14) , Kyung-Joo Kwon-Chung (15) , Jacques F Meis (16) , Wieland Meyer (17) , John I Pitt (1) , Robert A Samson (18) , John W. Taylor (19) , Kathrin Tintelnot (20) , Roxana G Vitale (21, 22) , Thomas J Walsh (23) , Michaela Lackner (24) , Working Group On Nomenclature of Medical Fungi Isham

1 CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre
2 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics - IBED (NETHERLANDS)
3 Research Center for Medical Mycology
4 SYSU - Sun Yat-Sen University [Guangzhou]
5 State University of the West of Parana – UNIOESTE
6 King Abdulaziz University
7 New York State Department of Health [Albany]
8 University of Manchester [Manchester]
9 UON - University of Nottingham, UK
10 DTU - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark
11 Penn State - Pennsylvania State University
12 Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin]
13 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
14 RWTH - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University
15 NIAID-NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda]
16 Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen]
17 The University of Sydney
18 LBNL - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley]
19 Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory, Department of Horticulture
20 RKI - Robert Koch Institute [Berlin]
21 Hospital General de Agudos J.M. Ramos Mejia
22 CONICET - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires]
23 Weill Medical College of Cornell University [New York]
24 Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck

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.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Mycology

G Sybren de Hoog, Vishnu Chaturvedi, David Denning, Paul S Dyer, Jens Christian Frisvad, et al.. Name changes in medically important fungi and their implications for clinical practice.. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2014, 53 (4), pp.1056-62. ⟨10.1128/JCM.02016-14⟩. ⟨pasteur-01518525⟩