Plasma metabolomics profiling identifies new predictive biomarkers for disease severity in COVID-19 patients

• Nelson C. Soares ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nelson C. Soares, Amal Hussein

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

  Affiliations University of Sharjah, Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Medicinal Chemistry University of Sharjah, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2331-8532

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• Amal Hussein ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nelson C. Soares, Amal Hussein

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

  Affiliation Department of Family and Community Medicine & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-8119

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• Jibran Sualeh Muhammad,

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

  Affiliations University of Sharjah, Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Mohammad H. Semreen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations University of Sharjah, Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Medicinal Chemistry University of Sharjah, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Gehad ElGhazali,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City- Union71- Purelab, Abu Dhabi and College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

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• Mawieh Hamad

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

  * E-mail: mabdelhaq@sharjah.ac.ae

  Affiliations University of Sharjah, Research Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6769-1091

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