Recognition of specific sialoglycan structures by oral streptococci impacts the severity of endocardial infection

• Barbara A. Bensing ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: barbara.bensing@ucsf.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6288-2323

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• Liang Li,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3571-8058

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• Olga Yakovenko,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Maurice Wong,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Karen N. Barnard,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Baker Institute for Animal Health, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6283-4543

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• T. M. Iverson,

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

  Affiliation Departments of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8816-6352

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• Carlito B. Lebrilla,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Colin R. Parrish,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Baker Institute for Animal Health, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1836-6655

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• Wendy E. Thomas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8602-0819

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• Yan Xiong,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Paul M. Sullam

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4446-5320

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