Reader response: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after SARS-CoV-2 infection

I read the article by Novi et al.¹ with interest. The positive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) would seem to suggest active CNS infection by COVID-19. It would, thus, seem better to characterize this as infectious meningitis-encephalomyelitis.

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Reference

1. Novi G, Rossi T, Pedemonte E, et al. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm 2020;7:e797.