Clinical utility of inflammatory biomarkers in COVID-19 in direct comparison to other respiratory infections—A prospective cohort study

• Maurin Lampart,

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

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3720-2584

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• Núria Zellweger,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3202-2365

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• Stefano Bassetti,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Sarah Tschudin-Sutter,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Katharina M. Rentsch,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Martin Siegemund,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliations Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Roland Bingisser,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emergency Department, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Stefan Osswald,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Gabriela M. Kuster,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Raphael Twerenbold

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

  * E-mail: r.twerenbold@uke.de

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, University Center of Cardiovascular Science and Department of Cardiology, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3814-6542

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