Two patients with acute meningoencephalitis concomitant with SARS-CoV-2 infection
R Bernard-Valnet, B Pizzarotti, A Anichini, Y Demars, E Russo, M Schmidhauser, J Cerutti-Sola, A O Rossetti, R Du Pasquier, R Bernard-Valnet, B Pizzarotti, A Anichini, Y Demars, E Russo, M Schmidhauser, J Cerutti-Sola, A O Rossetti, R Du Pasquier
No abstract availableKeywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; encephalitis; meningitis.
Conflict of interest statement
Dr Bernard‐Valnet, Dr Pizzarotti, Dr Anichini, Dr Demars, Dr Russo, Dr Schmidhauser, Dr Cerrutti‐Sola and Prof. Du Pasquier declare no financial or other conflicts of interest. Prof. Rossetti served as consultant to Marinus Pharmaceutical and reports research support from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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