Limited value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and serum creatinine as point-of-care biomarkers of disease severity and infection mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19

• Abdisa Tufa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: abdisa.tufa@aau.edu.et

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2196-6835

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• Tewodros Haile Gebremariam,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-1435

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• Tsegahun Manyazewal,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa), College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8360-7574

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• Yidnekachew Asrat,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tewodros Getinet,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tsegaye Gebreyes Hundie,

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

  Affiliation Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Dominic-Luc Webb,

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

  Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Per M. Hellström,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8428-0772

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• Solomon Genet

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5433-0107

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