Journal Article
No to Neocosmospora: Phylogenomic and Practical Reasons for Continued Inclusion of the Fusarium solani Species Complex in the Genus Fusarium
O'Donnel K,Al-Hatmi AMS,Aoki T,Brankovics B,Cano-Lira JF,Coleman JJ,de Hoog GS,di Pietro A,Frandsen RJN,Geiser DM,Gibas CFC,Guarro J,Kim HS,Kistler HC,Laraba I,Leslie JF,Lopez-Berges MS,Lysøe E,Meis JF,Monod MM,Proctor RH,Rep M,Ruiz-Roldan C,Šišić A,Stajich JE,Steenkamp ET,Sumerall BA,van der Lee TAJ,van Diepeningen AD,Verweij PE,Waalwijk C,Ward TJ,Wickes BL,Wiederhold NP,Wingfield MJ,Zhang N,Zhang SX
Abstract
This article is to alert medical mycologists and infectious disease specialists of recent name changes of medically important species of the filamentous mold Fusarium . Fusarium species can cause localized and life-threating infections in humans. Of the 70 Fusarium species that have been reported to cause infections, close to one-third are members of the Fusarium solani species complex (FSSC), and they collectively account for approximately two-thirds of all reported Fusarium infections.