The route of SARS-CoV-2 to brain infection: have we been barking up the wrong tree?

Rafal ButowtChristopher S von Bartheld

Published in: Molecular neurodegeneration (2022)

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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