Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Medical Mycology, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • 2 Department of Microbiology, Mubarak Al-Kabir Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait
  • 3 Mycology Section, Bacteriology Unit, Infectious Disease Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 4 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait
Med Mycol, 2023 Feb 03;61(2).
PMID: 36694950 DOI: 10.1093/mmy/myad009

Abstract

Invasive fungal infections caused by non-albicans Candida species are increasingly reported. Recent advances in diagnostic and molecular tools enabled better identification and detection of emerging pathogenic yeasts. The Candida haemulonii species complex accommodates several rare and recently described pathogenic species, C. duobushaemulonii, C. pseudohaemulonii, C. vulturna, and the most notorious example is the outbreak-causing multi-drug resistant member C. auris. Here, we describe a new clinically relevant yeast isolated from geographically distinct regions, representing the proposed novel species C. khanbhai, a member of the C. haemulonii species complex. Moreover, several members of the C. haemulonii species complex were observed to be invalidly described, including the clinically relevant species C. auris and C. vulturna. Hence, the opportunity was taken to correct this here, formally validating the names of C. auris, C. chanthaburiensis, C. konsanensis, C. metrosideri, C. ohialehuae, and C. vulturna.

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