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Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
; 40(9): 2023-2028, 2021 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1122785
ABSTRACT
During an epidemic period, we compared patients hospitalized for initial suspicion of COVID-19 but for whom an alternative diagnosis was finally retained (n = 152) with those who had COVID-19 (n = 222). Most common diagnoses were another infectious disease and heart failure. COVID-19-negative patients were more often active smokers had less often cough, fever, and digestive symptoms, as compared to the 222 COVID-19-positive patients. They had higher median neutrophil and lymphocyte counts and lower CRP level. In multivariate analysis, no current smoking, neurocognitive disorder, myalgia, and fibrinogen ≥4g/L were independently associated with a final diagnosis of COVID-19.
Subject(s)
COVID-19/diagnosis , Adult , Aged , COVID-19/therapy , COVID-19/virology , Hospitalization , Humans , Male , Patients/statistics & numerical data , Retrospective Studies , SARS-CoV-2/physiology
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J Infect
; 82(2): 282-327, 2021 02.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-799886