Schizophrenia and Toxoplasmosis

Overview

Journal Schizophr Bull

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2007 Apr 12

PMID 17426051

Citations 15

Authors

E Fuller Torrey

Robert H Yolken

Affiliations

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