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Funding Information: This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust Investigator, Collaborative, Equipment, Strategic and Biomedical Resource awards (086827, 075470, 097377, 101873, 200208, 093378 and 099197), the Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit-UCIBIO (FCT/MCTES UID/Multi/04378/2019), Wellcome Trust Biomedical Resource grant (108430/Z/15/Z), March of Dimes (Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.) Prematurity Research Center grant (22-FY18-821) and by the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology (N006364/1). The University of Aberdeen funded a studentship to IV as part of NARG?s Wellcome Senior Investigator Award. https://wellcome.ac.uk/ - Wellcome. https://mrc.ukri.org/ - MRC. https:// www.requimte.pt/ucibio/ - the Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit-UCIBIO. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Vendele et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Peer reviewedPublisher PD