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No to Neocosmospora : Phylogenomic and Practical Reasons for Continued Inclusion of the Fusarium solani Species Complex in the Genus Fusarium

2020; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 5; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/msphere.00810-20

2379-5042

Kerry O’Donnell, Abdullah M. S. Al‐Hatmi, Takayuki Aoki, Balázs Brankovics, J. Cano, Jeffrey J. Coleman, Sybren de Hoog, Antonio Di Pietro, Rasmus John Normand Frandsen, David M. Geiser, Connie Fe C. Gibas, Josep Guarro, Hye-Seon Kim, Harold Kistler, Imane Laraba, John F. Leslie, Manuel S. López‐Berges, Erik Lysøe, Jacques F. Meis, Michel Monod, Robert H. Proctor, Martijn Rep, Carmen Ruiz‐Roldán, Adnan Šišić, Jason Stajich, Emma T. Steenkamp, Brett A. Summerell, Théo van der Lee, Anne D. van Diepeningen, Paul E. Verweij, Cees Waalwijk, Todd J. Ward, Brian L. Wickes, Nathan P. Wiederhold, Michael J. Wingfield, Ning Zhang, Sean X. Zhang,

Antifungal resistance and susceptibility

This article is to alert medical mycologists and infectious disease specialists of recent name changes of medically important species of the filamentous mold FusariumFusarium 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. Many of these species were recently given scientific names for the first time by a research group in the Netherlands, but they were misplaced in the genus Neocosmospora In this paper, we present genetic arguments that strongly support inclusion of the FSSC in Fusarium There are potentially serious consequences associated with using the name Neocosmospora for Fusarium species because clinicians need to be aware that fusaria are broadly resistant to the spectrum of antifungals that are currently available.