{"id":3843,"date":"2021-02-10T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:49:12","slug":"cerebrospinal-fluid-in-covid-19-a-systematic-review-of-the-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/10\/cerebrospinal-fluid-in-covid-19-a-systematic-review-of-the-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Cerebrospinal Fluid in COVID-19: A Systematic Review of the Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing for potential viral neuroinvasion in patients with COVID-19 showed that among 303 patients who had CSF SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing, 16 (5%) were positive, and 75% of these positive patients were hospitalized due to neurological symptoms. The authors concluded that detection of SARS-CoV-2 in CSF via PCR is rare, and neurological complications associated with SARS-CoV-2 are likely not related to direct neuroinvasion.<\/p>\n<p><i>Lewis et al. (Jan 10, 2021). Cerebrospinal Fluid in COVID-19: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jns.2021.117316\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jns.2021.117316<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing for potential viral neuroinvasion in patients with COVID-19 showed that among 303 patients who had CSF SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing, 16 (5%) were positive, and 75% of these positive patients were hospitalized due to neurological symptoms. The authors concluded that detection of SARS-CoV-2 in CSF via PCR is&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/10\/cerebrospinal-fluid-in-covid-19-a-systematic-review-of-the-literature\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}