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Comment
. 2021 Sep;83(3):381-412.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.05.036. Epub 2021 Jun 1.

Lower respiratory tract and plasma SARS-CoV-2 RNA load in critically ill adult COVID-19 patients: Relationship with biomarkers of disease severity

Beatriz Olea  1 , Eliseo Albert  1 , Ignacio Torres  1 , Roberto Gozalbo-Rovira  1 , Nieves Carbonell  1 , José Ferreres  1 , Sandrine Poujois  1 , Rosa Costa  1 , Javier Colomina  1 , Jesús Rodríguez  1 , María Luisa Blasco  1 , David Navarro  2
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Lower respiratory tract and plasma SARS-CoV-2 RNA load in critically ill adult COVID-19 patients: Relationship with biomarkers of disease severity

Beatriz Olea et al. J Infect. 2021 Sep.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Kinetics of SARS-CoV-RNA load in tracheal aspirates (A) and plasma (B) of critically ill patients undergoing invasive ventilation. Panel C shows the kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 RNA load in the lower tracheal aspirates in patients who either died or
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