The use of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as a marker for COVID-19 infection in Saudi Arabia: A case-control retrospective multicenter study

Anwar A. Sayed; Assem A. Allam; Ayman I. Sayed; Mohammed A. Alraey; Mercy V. Joseph

doi:10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200818

Article Information

vol. 42 no. 4 370-376

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200818

PubMed

33795491

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Saudi Medical Journal

Online ISSN

1658-3175

History

Received December 31, 2020
Accepted February 22, 2021
Published online March 31, 2021.

Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

Anwar A. Sayed, MBBS, PhD ⇑,
Assem A. Allam, MBBS, MD,
Ayman I. Sayed, MBBS,
Mohammed A. Alraey, MBBS, MD and
Mercy V. Joseph, BSN, CIC

From the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (Sayed AA), Faculty of Medicine, Taibah University; from the Department of Internal Medicine (Sayed AI), Nojood Medical Center, Madinah; Department of Infection Control (Allam, Alraey, Joseph), King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and form the Department of Surgery and Cancer (Sayed AA), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Anwar A. Sayed, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Taibah University, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: dsayed{at}taibahu.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2243-0971

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