The route of SARS-CoV-2 to brain infection: have we been barking up the wrong tree?

Abstract

Abstract This letter draws attention to recent work supporting the notion that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may use the nervus terminalis rather than the olfactory nerve as a shortcut route from the nasal cavity to infect the brain.

Keywords

• COVID-19
• SARS-CoV-2
• Brain infection
• ACE2
• Olfactory system
• Nervus terminalis