About the Authors

Manel Boumegouas

Contributed equally to this work with: Manel Boumegouas, Manjunath Raju

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Manjunath Raju

Contributed equally to this work with: Manel Boumegouas, Manjunath Raju

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Joseph Gardiner

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Neal Hammer

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Yehia Saleh

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Abdullah Al-Abcha

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Michigan State University/Sparrow Hospital, Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Apoorv Kalra

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Metro Infectious Disease Consultants, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

George S. Abela

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

abela@msu.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Division of Pathology, Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.