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Rafal Butowt1, Christopher S von Bartheld2
1L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 85-094, Bydgoszcz, Poland. r.butowt@cm.umk.pl.
Abstract:
This letter draws attention to recent work supporting the notion that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may use the nervus terminalis rather than the olfactory nerve as a shortcut route from the nasal cavity to infect the brain.
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