TITLE : 1 A Multilocus Microsatellite Genotyping Array to Investigate the Genetic Epidemiology of Pneumocystis jirovecii 2

1 School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 17 2 Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 18 3 School of Medicine, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH 19 4 Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina 20 5 Hospital Clínic-CRESIB (Barcelona Centre for International Health Research), Universitat de Barcelona, 21 Barcelona, Spain 22 6 Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer), Universitat de Barcelona, 23 Barcelona, Spain 24 7 Makerere University College of Health Sciences and Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda 25 8 HIV/AIDS Division, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California 26 9 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 27 10 Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC 28 11 Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 29 * Corresponding author email: cmp@unc.edu 30 31