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Failure to demonstrate Borna disease virus genome in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from psychiatric patients in Korea.
- Source :
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Journal of neurovirology [J Neurovirol] 1999 Apr; Vol. 5 (2), pp. 196-9. - Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- RNA, extracted from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) obtained from 81 Korean psychiatric patients (39 with schizophrenia, 33 with bipolar affective disorders and nine with major depression), was analyzed for a 391-nucleotide, highly conserved region of the p24 protein-encoding ORF II of Borna disease virus (BDV), using nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). BDV genomic RNA was not detected in PBMC from any of the 81 Korean psychiatric patients. These data do not support an etiologic association between BDV infection and neuropsychiatric disorders in humans.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1355-0284
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of neurovirology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10321984
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3109/13550289909022002