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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany; Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: christina.forstner@med.uni-jena.de.
² Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany; CAPNETZ Stiftung, Hannover, Germany.

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Christina Forstner et al. Chest. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;158(3):1284-1285.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.04.021.

¹ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany; Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: christina.forstner@med.uni-jena.de.
² Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany; CAPNETZ Stiftung, Hannover, Germany.

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