Steep rise in drug use-associated infective endocarditis in West Virginia: Characteristics and healthcare utilization

• Ruchi Bhandari ,

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

  * E-mail: rbhandari@hsc.wvu.edu

  Affiliation School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4288-6255

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• Talia Alexander,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Frank H. Annie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Education and Research Institute, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8423-4119

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• Umar Kaleem,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Affan Irfan,

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

  Affiliation Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Sudarshan Balla,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• R. Constance Wiener,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Dentistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Chris Cook,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Aravinda Nanjundappa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Mark Bates,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Ellen Thompson,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4029-5398

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• Gordon S. Smith,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Judith Feinberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Melanie A. Fisher

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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