Viral load dynamics and disease severity in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Zhejiang province, China, January-March 2020: Retrospective cohort study

The BMJ

Volumn 369, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Zheng, Shufa ^a,b,c,d   Fan, Jian ^b,c,d   Yu, Fei ^b,c,d   Feng, Baihuan ^b,c,d   Lou, Bin ^b,c,d   Zou, Qianda ^b,c,d   Xie, Guoliang ^b,c,d   Lin, Sha ^b,c   Wang, Ruonan ^b,c   Yang, Xianzhi ^b,c   Chen, Weizhen ^b,c,d   Wang, Qi ^b,c,d   Zhang, Dan ^b,c,d   Liu, Yanchao ^b,c   Gong, Renjie ^b,c   Ma, Zhaohui ^b,c   Lu, Siming ^b,c   Xiao, Yanyan ^b,c   Gu, Yaxi ^b,c   Zhang, Jinming ^b,c   Yao, Hangping ^a   Xu, Kaijin ^a   Lu, Xiaoyang ^c   Wei, Guoqing ^c   Zhou, Jianying ^c   Fang, Qiang ^c   Cai, Hongliu ^c   Qiu, Yunqing ^a   Sheng, Jifang ^a   Chen, Yu ^a,b,c,d   Liang, Tingbo ^c,e   more..

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory of Clinical in vitro Diagnostic Techniques of Zhejiang Province   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e The Innovation Center for the Study of Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FECES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SALIVA; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPUTUM; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URINE SAMPLING; VIRUS LOAD; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMIC; PHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 85083871498     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m1443     Document Type: Article

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