Examination of the independent contribution of rheumatic heart disease and congestive cardiac failure to the development and outcome of melioidosis in Far North Queensland, tropical Australia

• Phoebe Davies,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Simon Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Rob Wilcox,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tropical Public Health Service, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• James D. Stewart,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Tania J. Davis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Kylie McKenna,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tropical Public Health Service, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Josh Hanson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jhanson@kirby.unsw.edu.au

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1423-3839

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