📄 Possible Central Nervous System Infection by SARS Coronavirus

On day 22 of illness, generalized tonic-clonic convulsion developed in a 32-year-old woman with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Cerebrospinal fluid tested positive for SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. SARS-CoV may have caused an infection in the central nervous system in this patient.

keywords 🔗 severe acute (1373) 🔗 nervous system (116) 🔗 polymerase chain (300) 🔗 reverse transcriptase (87) 🔗 central nervous (112) 🔗 respiratory syndrome (2004) 🔗 acute respiratory (1734) 🔗 chain reaction (303)

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