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Volume 3, Number 3—September 1997
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Borna Disease Virus Infection in Animals and Humans

Jürgen A. Richt*Comments to Author , Isolde Pfeuffer*, Matthias Christ*, Knut Frese†, Karl Bechter‡, and Sibylle Herzog*
Author affiliations: *Institut für Virologie, Giessen, Germany; †Institut für Veterinär-Pathologie, Giessen, Germany; and ‡Universität Ulm, Günzburg, Germany

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Figure 2

Borna disease virus seroprevalence among different age groups. 
Psych=psychiatric patients; Neuro=neurologic patients; Surg=surgical (control) patients. Reproduced with permission from Habilitationsschrift der Fakultät für Klinische Medizin der Universität Ulm (55).

Figure 2. Borna disease virus seroprevalence among different age groups. 
Psych=psychiatric patients; Neuro=neurologic patients; Surg=surgical (control) patients. Reproduced with permission from Habilitationsschrift der Fakultät für Klinische Medizin der Universität Ulm (55).

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