Interaction between bacteria and cholesterol crystals: Implications for endocarditis and atherosclerosis

• 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

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• 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

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• Joseph Gardiner,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

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

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• Neal Hammer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

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

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• 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

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• 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9025-7453

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• Apoorv Kalra,

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

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

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• George S. Abela

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

  * E-mail: 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8201-956X

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