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Aneeqa Babar1, Ula Lewandowski, Ivana Capin
1From the Department of Pediatrics, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|August 11, 2020
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We report a 20-year-old female with SARS-CoV-2 encephalitis who presented with 4 days of upper respiratory symptoms, fevers and sudden acute altered mental status. An extensive work up led to the most likely cause for the neurologic decompensation to be viewed as SARS-CoV-2 symptomology.
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