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Case Reports

Fatal encephalitis associated with coronavirus OC43 in an immunocompromised child

Anna NilssonDepartment of Women’s and Children’s Health, Childhood Cancer Research Unit, Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Niklas EdnerDepartment of Microbiology, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden;
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Jan AlbertDepartment of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Anders TernhagDepartment of Medicine Solna, Unit for Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 419-422 | Received 06 Feb 2020, Accepted 07 Feb 2020, Published online: 18 Feb 2020

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