Possible Central Nervous System Infection by SARS Coronavirus

Possible Central Nervous System Infection by SARS Coronavirus

Kwok-Kwong Lau, Wai-Cho Yu, Chung-Ming Chu, Suet-Ting Lau, Bun Sheng, K. Y. Yuen

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.

2004

coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Convulsion, Hong Kong

DOI: 10.3201/eid1002.030638

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine

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