Failure of early lymphocyte recovery identifies sepsis patients with initial lymphopenia at highest risk for late mortality

• Binli Ma,

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

  Affiliations Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Critical Care Medicine, General Hospital of the Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army of China, Guangzhou, China

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• Gan Lin,

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

  Affiliations Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Critical Care Medicine, General Hospital of the Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army of China, Guangzhou, China

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• Jinhu Li,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Critical Care Medicine, General Hospital of the Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army of China, Guangzhou, China

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• Lian Xie,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Critical Care Medicine, General Hospital of the Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army of China, Guangzhou, China, The First School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Jiale Yang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

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• Huasheng Tong

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fimmuths@163.com

  Affiliations Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Critical Care Medicine, General Hospital of the Southern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army of China, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6916-2487

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