First episode schizophrenia and borna disease virus (original) (raw)

Schizophrenia Research, 1997

Abstract

Abstract: Borna disease virus (BDV) is a neurotropic agent that causes CNS immunopathology and infects a wide range of natural hosts including cattle, rabbits, goats, deer, llamas, alpacas, horses, sheep, ostriches, domestic cats and possibly man. BDV sequence detection and virus recovery have been recently reported in humans; however, BDV is not as yet established as a human pathogen. In previous studies of BDV serology in schizophrenia, we found anti-BDV seropositivity to occur at a relatively high rate and to be ...

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