Borna disease virus and schizophrenia in Surinamese immigrants to the Netherlands

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 55-57

  Selten, Jean Paul ^a   Van Vliet, Karin ^a   Pleyte, Willem ^b   Herzog, Sibylle ^c   Hoek, Hans W ^b   Van Loon, Anton M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borna disease virus; Epidemiology; Etiology; Migration; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN P24; PRIMER RNA; PROTEIN P40; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BORNA DISEASE VIRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INCIDENCE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SURINAME;

EID: 0033673597     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008256     Document Type: Article

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