SARS-CoV-2 PCR cycle threshold at hospital admission associated with patient mortality

Jui Choudhuri; Jamal Carter; Randin Nelson; Karin Skalina; Marika Osterbur-Badhey; Andrew Johnston; Doctor Goldstein; Monika Paroder; James Szymanski

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244777

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SARS-CoV-2 PCR cycle threshold at hospital admission associated with patient mortality

Jui Choudhuri ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jui Choudhuri, James Szymanski

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6682-0250

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Jamal Carter,

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2436-0428

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Randin Nelson,

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Karin Skalina,

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2212-3533

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Marika Osterbur-Badhey,

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Andrew Johnston,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Saint Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5769-3106

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Doctor Goldstein,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6367-8335

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Monika Paroder,

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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James Szymanski

Contributed equally to this work with: Jui Choudhuri, James Szymanski

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

* E-mail: jszymans@montefiore.org

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0202-7058

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SARS-CoV-2 PCR cycle threshold at hospital admission associated with patient mortality

Jui Choudhuri,
Jamal Carter,
Randin Nelson,
Karin Skalina,
Marika Osterbur-Badhey,
Andrew Johnston,
Doctor Goldstein,
Monika Paroder,
James Szymanski

Published: December 31, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244777

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