Covid-19 in outpatients—Is fever a useful indicator for SARS-CoV-2 infection?

Anne Schneider; Holger Kirsten; Franziska Lordick; Florian Lordick; Christoph Lübbert; Amrei von Braun

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246312

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Covid-19 in outpatients—Is fever a useful indicator for SARS-CoV-2 infection?

Anne Schneider,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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Holger Kirsten,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), Medical Faculty, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, LIFE Research Center for Civilization Diseases, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3126-7950

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Franziska Lordick,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Medical Faculty, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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Florian Lordick,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine II (Oncology, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Pneumology and Infectious Diseases), Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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Christoph Lübbert ,

Roles Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors share responsibility.

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Infectious Diseases/Tropical Medicine, Nephrology and Rheumatology, St. Georg Hospital, Leipzig, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6942-5785

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Amrei von Braun

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: amrei.braun@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

¶‡ These authors share responsibility.

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4335-8884

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Covid-19 in outpatients—Is fever a useful indicator for SARS-CoV-2 infection?

Anne Schneider,
Holger Kirsten,
Franziska Lordick,
Florian Lordick,
Christoph Lübbert,
Amrei von Braun

Published: February 3, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246312

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