Is latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii a risk factor for suicidal behavior?

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 339-342

  Postolache, Teodor T ^a   Cook, Thomas Bradley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BALDWIN WALLACE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

latent infection; suicidal behavior; suicide; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

QUINOLINIC ACID;

AUTOMUTILATION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRENATAL SCREENING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEROPREVALENCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL SELF DIRECTED VIOLENCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84879975595     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.13.20     Document Type: Review

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