Both diet and Helicobacter pylori infection contribute to atherosclerosis in pre- and postmenopausal cynomolgus monkeys

• Traci L. Testerman ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Traci.Testerman@uscmed.sc.edu (TLT); douglas.merrell@usuhs.edu (DSM)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3883-6407

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• Cristina Semino-Mora †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Jennifer A. Cann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Medimmune, Rockville, MD, United States of America

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• Beidi Qiang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, United States of America

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• Edsel A. Peña,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

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• Hui Liu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Cara H. Olsen,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Haiying Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Wake Forest University Primate Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

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• Susan E. Appt,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Wake Forest University Primate Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

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• Jay R. Kaplan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Wake Forest University Primate Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

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• Thomas C. Register,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Wake Forest University Primate Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

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• D. Scott Merrell ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Traci.Testerman@uscmed.sc.edu (TLT); douglas.merrell@usuhs.edu (DSM)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Andre Dubois †

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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