High seroprevalence of Borna virus infection in schizophrenic patients, family members and mental health workers in Taiwan
@article{Chen1999HighSO, title={High seroprevalence of Borna virus infection in schizophrenic patients, family members and mental health workers in Taiwan}, author={C.-H. Chen and Y-L Chiu and F C Wei and F J Koong and H-C Liu and C K Shaw and Hai-Gwo Hwu and Kwang-jen Hsiao}, journal={Molecular Psychiatry}, year={1999}, volume={4}, pages={33-38} }
Borna disease virus (BDV), a negative-strand RNA virus, has been reported to be associated with severe psychiatric disorders. The association is mainly based on the findings that patients with schizophrenia and depression have a higher seroprevalence rate of BDV-specific antibodies than controls. In addition, psychiatric patients were also found to have a higher detection rate of BDV transcripts in their blood than controls. By using an improved Western blot analysis, we first demonstrated that…
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