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Schizophrenia as an Infectious Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. H. Hare
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 135 , Issue 5 , November 1979 , pp. 468 - 470
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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