No evidence for XMRV nucleic acids, infectious virus or anti-XMRV antibodies in Canadian patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

The gammaretroviruses xenotropic murine leukemia virus (MLV)-related virus (XMRV) and MLV have been reported to be more prevalent in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients than in healthy controls. Here, we report the complex analysis of whole blood...

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Main Authors: Imke Steffen, D Lorne Tyrrell, Eleanor Stein, Leilani Montalvo, Tzong-Hae Lee, Yanchen Zhou, Kai Lu, William M Switzer, Shaohua Tang, Hongwei Jia, Darren Hockman, Deanna M Santer, Michael Logan, Amir Landi, John Law, Michael Houghton, Graham Simmons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3219700?pdf=render