Incidence, clinical course and risk factor for recurrent PCR positivity in discharged COVID-19 patients in Guangzhou, China: A prospective cohort study

• Jiazhen Zheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiazhen Zheng, Rui Zhou, Fengjuan Chen

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Rui Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiazhen Zheng, Rui Zhou, Fengjuan Chen

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Fengjuan Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiazhen Zheng, Rui Zhou, Fengjuan Chen

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Guangzhou Eighth People’s Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Guofang Tang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Guangzhou Eighth People’s Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Keyi Wu,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Furong Li,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Huamin Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Jianyun Lu,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Jiyuan Zhou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0866-4402

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• Ziying Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5046-0385

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• Yuxin Yuan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Chunliang Lei ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: gz8hlcl@126.com (CL); wuxb1010@smu.edu.cn (XW)

  Affiliation Guangzhou Eighth People’s Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Xianbo Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: gz8hlcl@126.com (CL); wuxb1010@smu.edu.cn (XW)

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2706-9599

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