Serum β₂-microglobulin levels in Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19): Another prognosticator of disease severity?

• Walter Conca ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Conca, Nicolaas Nagelkerke

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wconca@kfshrc.edu.sa, concawalter6@gmail.com

  ¶‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Executive Health Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3427-2664

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• Mayyadah Alabdely ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  ¶‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Faisal Albaiz ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  ¶‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Michael Warren Foster ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Executive Health Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7608-6291

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• Maha Alamri,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Morad Alkaff,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Futwan Al-Mohanna,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Nicolaas Nagelkerke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Walter Conca, Nicolaas Nagelkerke

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

  Current address: Goetzens, Austria (retired)

  ¶‡ MA, FA and MWF also contributed equally to this work. WC and NN are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, United Arab University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

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• Reem Saad Almaghrabi

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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