Clinical characteristics and factors associated with long COVID among post-acute COVID-19 clinic patients in Zambia, August 2020 to January 2023: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study design

• Warren Malambo ,

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

  * E-mail: ykh1@cdc.gov

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Health Center, Lusaka, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4811-9831

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• Duncan Chanda,

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

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital Adult and Emergency Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5477-9054

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• Lily Besa,

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

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Daniella Engamba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital Adult and Emergency Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Linos Mwiinga,

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

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Health Center, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Mundia Mwitumwa,

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital Adult and Emergency Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Peter Matibula,

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital Adult and Emergency Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Neil Naik,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital Adult and Emergency Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Suilanji Sivile,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital Adult and Emergency Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Simon Agolory,

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

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Health Center, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Andrew Auld,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Health Center, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Lloyd Mulenga,

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

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Jonas Z. Hines ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonas Z. Hines, Sombo Fwoloshi

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

  Affiliation Division of Global HIV and TB, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Health Center, Lusaka, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-0333

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• Sombo Fwoloshi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonas Z. Hines, Sombo Fwoloshi

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

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital Adult and Emergency Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

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