Commonness of neurological appearances in COVID-19 and their relationship with mortalityPrevalencia de las manifestaciones neurolgicas en COVID-19 y su asociacin con la mortalidad

The coronavirus is made up of a group of enveloped RNA viruses that cause the development of respiratory, enteric, gastrointestinal, liver and neurological diseases. SARS-CoV, identified in 2003 as a zoonotic infection in Guangdong province, China, in 2003 and MERS-CoV, identified in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the year 2012, belong to the beta coronavirus genus, where both agents are responsible for severe respiratory conditions. In late 2019, a group of patients with severe pneumonia was reported in Wuhan, China; identifying a coronavirus as the causal agent. This disease was named “2019-nCov” or “COVID-19”. Given its genetic similarity to the SARS species, the causal agent was named SARS-CoV-2.

Author(s): C.R.Carlosa Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado, Mexico    

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