Human blastomycosis in South Africa caused by Blastomyces percursus and 1 Blastomyces africanus sp . nov . , 1967 – 2014 2 3

Title: Human blastomycosis in South Africa caused by Blastomyces percursus and 1 Blastomyces africanus sp. nov., 1967 – 2014 2 3 Authors: Tsidiso G. Maphanga*, Monica Birkhead, José F. Muñoz, Mushal Allam, 4 Thokozile G. Zulu, Christina A. Cuomo, Ilan S. Schwartz, Arshad Ismail, Serisha D. Naicker, 5 Ruth S. Mpembe, Craig Corcoran, Sybren de Hoog, Chris Kenyon, Andrew M. Borman, John 6 A. Frean, and Nelesh P. Govender 7 8 Affiliations: National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a Division of the National Health 9 Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa (Tsidiso G. Maphanga, Monica Birkhead, 10 Mushal Allam, Thokozile G. Zulu, Arshad Ismail, Serisha D. Naicker, Ruth S. Mpembe, John 11 A. Frean, Nelesh P. Govender); University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa 12 (Tsidiso G. Maphanga); Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA (José F. 13 Muñoz, Christina A. Cuomo); University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Ilan S. 14 Schwartz; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (Serisha D. Naicker, 15 John A. Frean, Nelesh P. Govender); Ampath National Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, 16 South Africa (Craig Corcoran); Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht and 17 Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Sybren de Hoog); Center of Expertise in Mycology of 18 RadboudUMC/ Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Sybren de 19 Hoog); Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (Chris Kenyon); UK National 20 Mycology Reference Laboratory, Public Health England, Bristol, United Kingdom (Andrew 21 M. Borman) 22 23 24 25 26 JCM Accepted Manuscript Posted Online 2 January 2020 J. Clin. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/JCM.01661-19 Copyright © 2020 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.