Prevalence and characteristics of fever in adult and paediatric patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A systematic review and meta-analysis of 17515 patients

• Md Asiful Islam ,

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

  * E-mail: asiful@usm.my, ayoncx70@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Haematology, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5937-6473

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• Shoumik Kundu ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors are joint second authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Sayeda Sadia Alam ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors are joint second authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Tareq Hossan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Mohammad Amjad Kamal,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations West China School of Nursing, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-Related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Institutes for Systems Genetics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Enzymoics, Novel Global Community Educational Foundation, Hebersham, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0088-0565

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• Rosline Hassan

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Haematology, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia

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