Factors associated with prolonged viral shedding in COVID-19 infection: A retrospective cohort from Karachi, Pakistan

• Lokesh Kumar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lokesh Kumar, Ishfaque Ahmed, Nosheen Nasir

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

  ^* drlokeshukrani@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-7612

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• Ishfaque Ahmed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lokesh Kumar, Ishfaque Ahmed, Nosheen Nasir

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Chanchal Kumari ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ CK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Nosheen Nasir

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lokesh Kumar, Ishfaque Ahmed, Nosheen Nasir

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

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