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. 2025 Jul 21.
doi: 10.1007/s15010-025-02612-x. Online ahead of print.

Possible long COVID biomarker: identification of SARC-CoV-2 related protein(s) in Serum Extracellular Vesicles

Asghar Abbasi  1 , Ritin Sharma  2   3 , Nathaniel Hansen  2   3 , Patrick Pirrotte #  2   3 , William W Stringer #  4
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Possible long COVID biomarker: identification of SARC-CoV-2 related protein(s) in Serum Extracellular Vesicles

Asghar Abbasi et al. Infection. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflict of interest: Asghar Abbasi is supported by TRDRP (28FT-0017), NIH (R43HL167289, 2R44HL167289-02), and the Johnny Carson Foundation. William Stringer receives research foundation support from the Pulmonary Education and Research Foundation and the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSoM)-Ventura County Community Foundation (VCCF) Long COVID 19 Research Award. He reports consulting fees from Verona, Genetech, and Vyaire. He is the co-author of a clinical exercise testing physiology textbook for Lippincott.

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