Association Between Prenatal Exposure to Bacterial Infection and Risk of Schizophrenia
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Exposure to Prenatal Infection and Risk of Schizophrenia
We provide a brief review of findings supporting a role for prenatal infection in the etiology of schizophrenia. Our group and others have conducted birth cohort studies to address whether in utero exposure to infectious agents, prospectively documented by biomarker assays of archived maternal sera, and by detailed obstetric records, confer an increased risk of schizophrenia in adult offspring....
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbn121