Lack of association between defective delinquents and antibody of herpesvirus hom in is

FUCCILLO, DAVID A. Ph.D.
KURENT, JEROME E. M.D.
MANNE, SIGMUND H. Ph.D.
ROSENTHAL, DAVID Ph.D.
BEADLE, EUDORA
SEVER, JOHN L. M.D., Ph.D.

From the Infectious Diseases Branch and Section on Mathematical Statistics, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, the Laboratory of Psychology and Psychopathology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, and Patuxent Institution for Defective Delinquents, Jessup, Maryland.

Dr. Fuccillo's address is c/o Litton Bionetics, 5516 Nicholson Lane, Kensington, MD 20795.

Received for publication January 5, 1976.

Neurology 27(3):p 304-305, March 1977.

Article abstract

several groups have reported a relation between herpesvirus hominis infection and certain psychiatric disorders. We have investigated herpes antibody levels in chronic criminal offenders who were diagnosed as defective delinquents and in criminals who were not defective delinquents. We found no difference in the frequency of titers of herpesvirus type I or type 2 antibody in these groups.