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Masoud Etemadifar1, Mehri Salari2,3, Aditya Ashok Murgai4
1Department of Functional Neurosurgery Medical School, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran.
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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