Finding positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR in cerebrospinal fluid of two pediatric patients with severe COVID-19: a brief case report.

Reza Sinaei Habibeh Nejadbiglari Roya Sinaei Maziar Zeinaly Sara Pezeshki Maedeh Jafari

Published in: BMC pediatrics (2023)

This is one of the first reports of the presence of coronavirus in the central nervous system in COVID-19 pediatric patients, emphasizing the neurotropism and neuroinvasion characteristics of the virus.

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