Recovery of adenovirus type 7 from human brain cell cultures.
A  strain of adenovirus type 7 was recovered from cultured brain cells, taken at necropsy from a patient aged 71 years with chronic schizophrenia. This recovery may indicate the reactivation of a latent infection with one of the few adenoviruses that has regularly-if rarely-been associated with clinical encephalitis.
D000256:Adenoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000382:microbiology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000382:microbiology*