chronic fatigue syndrome

TWiV 98: Murine musings, electric shirts, and rabid pathologists

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode 98 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the finding of murine leukemia virus-related sequences in the blood of CFS patients and healthy donors, laboratory inventories for wild poliovirus containment, weaving high-performance viral batteries into fabric for the military, and …

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PMRV joins XMRV as possible etiologic agent of chronic fatigue syndrome

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The new human retrovirus XMRV, first detected in malignant prostate tissue, was subsequently identified in a high percentage of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The virus was not detected in four independent studies of CFS patients in Europe or the United States. The results of a second American study, whose publication was blocked for …

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TWiV 94: XMRV with Dr. Ila Singh

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Ila Singh On episode #94 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich speak with Ila Singh about the new human retrovirus XMRV, and how her laboratory is studying its association with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV094.mp3″] Click the arrow above to …

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TWiV 89: Where do viruses vacation?

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove On episode #89 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Alan review recent findings on the association of the retrovirus XMRV with ME/CFS, reassortment of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in swine, and where influenza viruses travel in the off-season. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV089.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, …

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XMRV, prostate cancer, and chronic fatigue syndrome

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Robert H. Silverman, one of the authors on the study implicating the new human retrovirus XMRV as an etiologic agent of chronic fatigue syndrome, has written an excellent review article on the current status of research on the virus. The article is behind a paywall at Nature Reviews Urology, so I’ll provide a summary of …

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