Fulminant encephalitis as a sole manifestation of COVID-19

Novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) occurred in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has become a global health emergency. Coronavirus primarily is a respiratory virus, but it has been detected in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of infected individuals. The present report describes a case of fulminant en...

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Autores principales: Etemadifar, Masoud, Salari, Mehri, Murgai, Aditya Ashok, Hajiahmadi, Somayeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2020
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Covid-19
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32901399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10072-020-04712-y
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Sumario:Novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) occurred in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has become a global health emergency. Coronavirus primarily is a respiratory virus, but it has been detected in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of infected individuals. The present report describes a case of fulminant encephalitis in a patient affected by COVID-19.

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