Characterization of patients receiving surgical versus non-surgical treatment for infective endocarditis in West Virginia

• 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, WV, United States of America

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

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• Noor Abdulhay,

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

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

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• Talia Alexander,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States of America, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Jessica Rubenstein,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Andrew Meyer,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Frank H. Annie,

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

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

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• R. Constance Wiener,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Cara Sedney,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Ellen Thompson,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Affan Irfan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mayo Clinic Health System, Rochester, MN, United States of America

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