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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 and Mercy V. Joseph
Saudi Medical Journal April 2021, 42 (4) 370-376; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200818
Anwar A. Sayed
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.
MBBS, PhDAssem A. Allam
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.
MBBS, MDAyman I. Sayed
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.
MBBSMohammed A. Alraey
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.
MBBS, MDMercy V. Joseph
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.
BSN, CIC
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- Received December 31, 2020
- Accepted February 22, 2021
- Published online March 31, 2021.
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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.
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- 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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