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Comparative Study
. 1992 Nov;86(5):418-20.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1992.tb03290.x.

Search for evidence of herpes simplex virus, type 1, or varicella-zoster virus infection in postmortem brain tissue from schizophrenic patients

R C Alexander  1 , G Cabirac, T Lowenkopf, M Casanova, J Kleinman, R J Wyatt, D G Kirch
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Comparative Study

Search for evidence of herpes simplex virus, type 1, or varicella-zoster virus infection in postmortem brain tissue from schizophrenic patients

R C Alexander et al. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1992 Nov.

Abstract

The highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to search for herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-I) or varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in the DNA extracted from postmortem temporal cortex samples of 8 schizophrenic subjects, 8 nonschizophrenic suicide victims and 8 normal controls. HSV-I or VZV-specific DNA amplification was not detected in any of the samples studied.

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