Article
Detection and sequence analysis of borna disease virus p24 RNA from peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with mood disorders or schizophrenia and of blood donors.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 1998
Iwata Y, Takahashi K, Peng X, Fukuda K, Ohno K, Ogawa T, Gonda K, Mori N, Niwa S, Shigeta S
Abstract excerpt
Borna disease virus (BDV) p24 RNA was detected in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of psychiatric patients and blood donors by nested reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR). The prevalences of BDV p24 RNA in patients with mood disorders (4%) and schizophrenia (4%) were not significantly...
Topics
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Blood Donors
- Borna Disease
- Borna disease virus
- DNA Primers
- Female
- Humans
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
