Table 1. Thorough description of reported cases of meningitis and meningoencephalitis due to SARS-CoV-2.

Authors	Title	Neurological Syndrome	Month/Year 1	Country	Age	Sex	CSF RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2	Nasopharyngeal Swab for SARS-CoV-2	Outcome
Moriguchi et al. 5	A first case of meningitis/encephalitis associated with SARS-CoV-2	Meningitis	April/2020	Japan	24 y	M	Positive	Negative	N/A
Packwood et al . 13	Unusual Case Report of COVID-19 presenting with Meningitis symptoms and shingles	Meningitis	August/2020	United States	58 y	M	N/A	Positive	Discharge
Dharsandiya et al . 14	SARS-CoV-2 viral sepsis with meningoencephalitis	Meningoencephalitis	June/2020	India	68 y	M	NP	Positive	Death
Bernard-Valn et al . 15	Two patients with acute meningoencephalitis concomitant with SARS-CoV-2 infection	Meningoencephalitis	September/2020	Switzerland	64/67 y	F	Negative	Positive	Discharge *
Ferreira et al . 16	Acute meningoencephalitis as initial presentation of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in pediatrics	Meningoencephalitis	November/2020	Colombia	5 m	N/A	Negative	Positive 2	Discharge
Dugue et al . 17	Neurologic manifestations in an infant with COVID-19	Meningoencephalitis	June/2020	United States	1 m	M	Negative	Positive	Discharge
Regev et al. 18	Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome with Central Nervous System involvement and hypocomplementemia following SARS-CoV-2 infection	Meningoencephalitis	August/2020	Israel	16 y	M	Negative	Positive	Discharge
Al-Olama et al. 19	COVID-19-associated meningoencephalitis complicated with intracranial hemorrhage: a case report	Meningoencephalitis	May/2020	United Arab Emirates	36 y	M	Positive 2	Positive 2	N/A
Chaumont et al. 20	Acute meningoencephalitis in a patient with COVID-19	Meningoencephalitis	June/2020	France	69 y	M	Negative	Positive 3	Discharge

¹Publication date;

²Second swab was positive;

³Performed as bronchoalveolar lavage; M = Male; F = Female; N/A = Not Available; NP=Not performed;

^*both patients were female, had negative CSF RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 , and discharged; m = months; y = years.