Thread by @Primary_Immune

🆕: ⚠️Not so mild 🦠#COVID19
in this immunosuppressed patient
- development of atypical, severe, acute 🧠 meningitis
ijidonline.com/article/S1201-… #bioinformatics #womeninstem #openscience #scicomm #snrtg #genomics #immunology

This patient could not have wound up in better hands:
National Institute of Infectious Diseases
“Lazzaro Spallanzani” IRCCS- Rome, 🇮🇹 Italy
👍 great job treating this patient,
sequencing and monitoring🧬the 🦠strain,
...and saving her life
#openscience #scicomm

I have found only a handful of reports in literature of
🦠Sars-Cov-2 induced🧠 meningitis. I thought there would be more. Caveat: it's exceedingly rare, but it does happen.

The only other 🦠COVID ➡️🧠 meningitis cases I find in literature with *direct* evidence of Sars-Cov-2 in "CSF"
1⃣ ijidonline.com/article/S1201-… #openscience #scicomm #womeninstem
2⃣ journals.lww.com/pidj/fulltext/… #COVID19