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. 2020 Sep 11:11:995.
doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00995. eCollection 2020.

Parkinson's Disease in the Era of a Novel Respiratory Virus Pandemic

Matilde Otero-Losada  1 , Tamara Kobiec  1   2 , Lucas Udovin  1 , Guenson Chevalier  1 , Cecilia Quarracino  1 , Camila Menéndez Maissonave  2 , Sofia Bordet  1   2 , Francisco Capani  1   3   4   5 , Santiago Perez-Lloret  1   6
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Parkinson's Disease in the Era of a Novel Respiratory Virus Pandemic

Matilde Otero-Losada et al. Front Neurol. .
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Keywords: COVID 19; Parkinson's disease; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; influenaza virus; neurological diseases; neurological impact; viral infection.

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Schematic representation of the most likely routes to neural invasion by SARS-CoV-2. Left: orange depicts the olfactory neuroepithelium route; blue depicts the bloodstream route after lung invasion (reproduced from https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemza). Right: red circles indicate brain areas with the highest SARS-CoV titers (figure kindly provided by the Servier Medical Art Department). All figures are reproduced under a CC BY-SA license.
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