SARS-CoV-2 viral load as a predictor for disease severity in outpatients and hospitalised patients with COVID-19: A prospective cohort study

• Fredrikke Christie Knudtzen ,

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

  * E-mail: fredrikke.christie.knudtzen@rsyd.dk

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Clinical Center of Emerging and Vector-borne Infections, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, OPEN, Open Patient Data Explorative Network, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8348-7819

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• Thøger Gorm Jensen,

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

  Affiliations Clinical Center of Emerging and Vector-borne Infections, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Research Unit for Clinical Microbiology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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• Susan Olaf Lindvig,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

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• Line Dahlerup Rasmussen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

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• Lone Wulff Madsen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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• Silje Vermedal Hoegh,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Research Unit for Clinical Microbiology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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• Malene Bek-Thomsen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Lillebælt Hospital, Vejle, Denmark

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• Christian B. Laursen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

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• Stig Lønberg Nielsen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stig Lønberg Nielsen, Isik Somuncu Johansen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7780-7131

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• Isik Somuncu Johansen

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stig Lønberg Nielsen, Isik Somuncu Johansen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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