Viral Load at Hospitalization is an Independent Predictor of Severe COVID-19

Overview

Journal Eur J Clin Invest

Publisher Wiley

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2022 Oct 3

PMID 36190270

Authors

Hjalmar Waller

Noelia Carmona-Vicente

Axel James

Melissa Govender

Francis R Hopkins

Marie Larsson

Marie Hagbom

Lennart Svensson

Helena Enocsson

Annette Gustafsson

Asa Nilsdotter-Augustinsson

Johanna Sjowall

Johan Nordgren

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