Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors' Preface
- 1 The viruses in our past, the viruses in our future
- 2 Dynamics and epidemiological impact of microparasites
- 3 The continuing threat of bunyaviruses and hantaviruses
- 4 Calicivirus, myxoma virus and the wild rabbit in Australia: a tale of three invasions
- 5 Potential of influenza A viruses to cause pandemics
- 6 The hepatitis viruses as emerging agents of infectious diseases
- 7 The emergence of human immunodeficiency viruses and AIDS
- 8 Morbilliviruses: dangers old and new
- 9 Structure–function analysis of prion protein
- 10 Endogenous retroviruses and xenotransplantation
- 11 Gammaherpesviral infections and neoplasia in immunocompromised populations
- 12 Structure and function of the proteins of Marburg and Ebola viruses
- 13 Epidemic dengue/dengue haemorrhagic fever as a public health problem in the 21st century
- 14 Borna disease virus – a threat for human mental health?
- 15 Antiviral drug development and the impact of drug resistance
- Index
14 - Borna disease virus – a threat for human mental health?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors' Preface
- 1 The viruses in our past, the viruses in our future
- 2 Dynamics and epidemiological impact of microparasites
- 3 The continuing threat of bunyaviruses and hantaviruses
- 4 Calicivirus, myxoma virus and the wild rabbit in Australia: a tale of three invasions
- 5 Potential of influenza A viruses to cause pandemics
- 6 The hepatitis viruses as emerging agents of infectious diseases
- 7 The emergence of human immunodeficiency viruses and AIDS
- 8 Morbilliviruses: dangers old and new
- 9 Structure–function analysis of prion protein
- 10 Endogenous retroviruses and xenotransplantation
- 11 Gammaherpesviral infections and neoplasia in immunocompromised populations
- 12 Structure and function of the proteins of Marburg and Ebola viruses
- 13 Epidemic dengue/dengue haemorrhagic fever as a public health problem in the 21st century
- 14 Borna disease virus – a threat for human mental health?
- 15 Antiviral drug development and the impact of drug resistance
- Index
Summary
‘Mania is sickness for one's friends, depression for one's self. Both is chemical … a weakening in the blood.’
From ‘Collected Poems’ by Robert Lowell (1917–1977), American poet and Pulitzer prize winner
with a documented history of manic-depressive illness.‘Dabei kommt natürlich alles darauf an, dass wir für die betreffenden Seuchen ganz zuverlässige Methoden zum Nachweis der Krankheitserreger besitzen. Insbesondere gilt dies für diejenigen Kranken, welche sich im frühesten Stadium der Krankheit befinden und für die sogenannten Bazillenträger, weil diese beiden Kategorien von Kranken erfahrungsgemäβ am meisten zur Verschleppung der Seuchen beitragen. Auf jeden Fall bildet eine sichere Diagnose gewissermaβen den Schlüssel für die moderne Seuchenbekämpfung.’ [‘Of course it all depends on the availability of reliable methods to detect the causative agents of the pestilence in question. This is particularly true for those patients in very early stages of the disease and for the so-called “carriers”, as experience tells us that these two categories of patients are the main contributors when it comes to the spread of the pestilence. In any case, a reliable diagnosis is the key for the modern battle against pestilence.’]
From a speech given by Robert Koch 1908 at a convention of most of the MDs of Berlin honouring his return from a successful expedition to East Africa, where he investigated the sleeping disease
(published in Dtsch Med Wochenschr no. 8).PROLOGUE
Unlike related viruses infecting both man and animals (for example, influenza virus and rabies virus), in which zoonotic pathways are well established, Borna virus infections of man have only been reported recently and their possible zoonotic transmission remains unknown.
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