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February 1, 2004Emerging infectious diseases404 citationsOpen Access

Possible Central Nervous System Infection by SARS Coronavirus

KLK. LauWYWai-Cho YuCCChung‐Ming Chu

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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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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1bfe7cc97d63156a5f3108https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1002.030638
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