1. Fulminant encephalitis as a sole manifestation of COVID-19
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Masoud Etemadifar, Aditya Ashok Murgai, Somayeh Hajiahmadi, and Mehri Salari
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Male ,Sole presentation ,viruses ,Fulminant ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Clinical Neurology ,Dermatology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Betacoronavirus ,03 medical and health sciences ,Fatal Outcome ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cerebrospinal fluid ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Global health ,Humans ,Encephalitis, Viral ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Pandemics ,Coronavirus ,biology ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,Brain ,COVID-19 ,virus diseases ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Encephalitis ,Respiratory virus ,Neurology (clinical) ,Coronavirus Infections ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
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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- 2020
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