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Herpes simplex virus DNA in the brain of psychotic patients
M Kúdelová1, J Rajcáni, J Pogády
1Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
Acta Virologica
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA was found by spot blot hybridization in the right nc. amygdalae of 3 out 10 patients who underwent curative stereotactic surgery for severe mental retardation with aggressive behavior and/or paranoic schizophrenia. Of these, 6 were also tested for the presence of CMV DNA sequences with negative results. Biopsy specimens from nc. amygdalae of another 7 psychotic patients were cultured in vitro but no virus was isolated.