Severity and properties of cardiac damage caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae are strain dependent

• Anukul T. Shenoy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anukul T. Shenoy, Sarah M. Beno

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

  Current address: Pulmonary Center–Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Sarah M. Beno ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anukul T. Shenoy, Sarah M. Beno

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Terry Brissac,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2549-4479

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• Jeremiah W. Bell,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Lea Novak,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Carlos J. Orihuela

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: corihuel@uab.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-4069

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