Exposure to prenatal infection and risk of schizophrenia

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Brown, Alan S ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth cohort; Epidemiology; Infection; Influenza; Rubella; Schizophrenia; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84862663441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00063     Document Type: Review

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