| health care professionals at risk of infection with borna disease virus - evidence from a large hospital in china (chongqing). | human borna disease virus (bdv) infections have recently been reported in china. bdv causes cognitive and behavioural disturbances in animals. the impact on human mental disorders is subject to debate, but previous studies worldwide have found neuropsychiatric patients more frequently infected than healthy controls. a few isolates were recovered from severely depressed patients, but contagiousness of bdv strain remains unknown. | 2015 | 25888756 |
| evidence for natural borna disease virus infection in healthy domestic animals in three areas of western china. | borna disease virus (bdv) is a non-cytolytic, neurotropic rna virus that can infect many vertebrate species, including humans. to date, bdv infection has been reported in a range of animal species across a broad global geographic distribution. however, a systematic epidemiological survey of bdv infection in domesticated animals in china has yet to be performed. in current study, bdv rna and antibodies in 2353 blood samples from apparently healthy animals of eight species (horse, donkey, dog, pig ... | 2014 | 24573218 |