No to <i>Neocosmospora</i> : Phylogenomic and Practical Reasons for Continued Inclusion of the Fusarium solani Species Complex in the Genus <i>Fusarium</i>
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
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.