High SARS-CoV-2 load in the nasopharynx of patients with a mild form of COVID-19 is associated with clinical deterioration regardless of the hydroxychloroquine administration

• Alexey Komissarov,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Clinical City Hospital named after I.V. Davydovsky, Moscow Department of Healthcare, Moscow, Russia, Laboratory of Atherothrombosis, Cardiology Department, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia

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• Ivan Molodtsov,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical City Hospital named after I.V. Davydovsky, Moscow Department of Healthcare, Moscow, Russia, N.F. Gamaleya Federal National Research Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia

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• Oxana Ivanova,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Clinical City Hospital named after I.V. Davydovsky, Moscow Department of Healthcare, Moscow, Russia, Laboratory of Atherothrombosis, Cardiology Department, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8477-9706

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• Elena Maryukhnich,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Clinical City Hospital named after I.V. Davydovsky, Moscow Department of Healthcare, Moscow, Russia, Laboratory of Atherothrombosis, Cardiology Department, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia

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• Svetlana Kudryavtseva,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Clinical City Hospital named after I.V. Davydovsky, Moscow Department of Healthcare, Moscow, Russia

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• Alexey Mazus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Moscow City Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, Moscow Department of Healthcare, Moscow, Russia

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• Evgeniy Nikonov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Moscow Department of Healthcare, Moscow, Russia

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• Elena Vasilieva

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

  * E-mail: vasilievahelena@gmail.com

  Affiliations Clinical City Hospital named after I.V. Davydovsky, Moscow Department of Healthcare, Moscow, Russia, Laboratory of Atherothrombosis, Cardiology Department, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4111-0874

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