Possible Central Nervous System Infection by SARS Coronavirus

Lau, Kwok-Kwong; Yu, Wai-Cho; Chu, Chung-Ming; Lau, Suet-Ting; Sheng, Bun; Yuen, Kwok-Yung

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Possible Central Nervous System Infection by SARS Coronavirus

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Feb 2004

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Emerg Infect Dis. 10(2):342-344.

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Emerg Infect Dis

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Lau, Kwok-Kwong ; Yu, Wai-Cho ; Chu, Chung-Ming ; Lau, Suet-Ting ; Sheng, Bun ; ... More ▼

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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.

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