50 Years of Emmonsia Disease in Humans: The Dramatic Emergence of a Cluster of Novel Fungal Pathogens

1 International Health Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2 Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 3 Sexually Transmitted Infection Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 4 University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 5 Department of Dermatology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, 6 National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, 7 CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 8 University of Alberta Microfungus Collection and Herbarium, Devonian Botanic Garden, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 9 Department of Dermatology, The Affiliated Hospital, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China, 10 Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB), Medellín, Colombia, 11 Institute of Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, 12 Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 13 Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa, 14 Mycology Unit, Medical School & Pere Virgili Institute for Health Research, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain