Seizures as the main presenting manifestation of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in children

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 is more likely to cause symptomatic disease in adults than in children. If symptoms do occur, they are often milder compared to those of adults. The main symptoms in children are fever and mild respiratory symptoms [1-5]. Several studies describing the manifestations of acute COVID-19 in children did not report any neurological manifestations, for example, out of 2,306 pediatric patients from China and 81 from Singapore, none reported neurological symptoms [1, 2, 4].

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