XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome
…a xenotropic MLV that crossed from mice to humans. Remember the zoonotic pool? Does XMRV cause CFS? While the presence of XMRV in 67% of CFS samples seems impressive, it…
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XMRV and CFS – It’s not the end
…and decided that they raised serious concerns about the role of XMRV in human disease. Specifically, the four papers demonstrated different ways that assays for XMRV could be subject to…
XMRV not found in 170 additional UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients
…of proviral XMRV DNA (viral DNA integrated into human chromosomal DNA). No XMRV sequences were detected in 142 CFS samples and 157 controls. A second method was then used to…
XMRV not detected in UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients
…fatigue syndrome (CFS). This observation raised the possibility that XMRV is the etiologic agent of CFS. An important question is whether XMRV is associated with CFS in other parts of…
XMRV, prostate cancer, and chronic fatigue syndrome
…xenotropic and polytropic murine leukemia viruses and hence was named xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV. Five lines of evidence indicate that XMRV is not a laboratory contaminant: XMRV…
XMRV infection of Rhesus macaques
…not have antibodies to the capsid protein p30 of XMRV, indicating that they were not previously infected. Animals were inoculated intravenously with 3.6 million TCID50 of purified XMRV – a…