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Antibody Levels to Herpes Simplex Type 1, Measles and Rubella Viruses in Psychiatric Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. E. Halonen
Affiliation:
Department of Virology, University of Turku, Finland
R. Rimon
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Helsinki, Finland
Katve Arohonka
Affiliation:
Department of Virology, University of Turku, Finland
V. Jäntti
Affiliation:
Department of Virology, University of Turku, Finland

Extract

The systematic search of aetiological agents from a variety of slowly progressing or subacute neurological diseases has revealed causative viruses or virus-like agents from kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and other forms of presenile dementias, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, progressive multifocal encephalopathy, and from many similar neurological diseases in animals (Gajdusek and Gibbs, 1973; Gajdusek, 1973). The first two diseases called subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies (Gajdusek and Gibbs, 1971) have many interesting features including heredo-familial occurrence and totally non-inflammatory neuropathology. Thus the epidemiology of these diseases is not typical for diseases with infectious aetiology, and the histopathological studies do not suggest the presence of extremely high-titred infectious material in brain cells.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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