Mortality, morbidity, and cardiac surgery in Injection Drug Use (IDU)-associated versus non-IDU infective endocarditis: The need to expand substance use disorder treatment and harm reduction services

• Kinna Thakarar ,

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

  * E-mail: kthakarar@mmc.org

  Affiliations Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States of America, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, United States of America, InterMed Infectious Disease, South Portland, ME, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4689-0240

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• Kristina E. Rokas,

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

  Affiliation Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, United States of America

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• F. L. Lucas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States of America

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• Spencer Powers,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Andrews,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, United States of America

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• Christina DeMatteo,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, United States of America

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• Deirdre Mooney,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, United States of America

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• Marcella H. Sorg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States of America

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• August Valenti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, United States of America, InterMed Infectious Disease, South Portland, ME, United States of America

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• Mylan Cohen

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Portland, ME, United States of America, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, United States of America

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