XMRV and Public Health: The Retroviral Genome Is Not a Suitable Template for Diagnostic PCR, and Its Association with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Appears Unreliable

XMRV and Public Health: The Retroviral Genome Is Not a Suitable Template for Diagnostic PCR, and Its Association with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Appears Unreliable

A few years ago, a highly significant association between the xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a complex debilitating disease of poorly understood etiology and no definite treatment, was reported in Science, raisin...

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Main Authors: Simona Panelli, Lorenzo Lorusso, Alessandro Balestrieri, Giuseppe Lupo, Enrica Capelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
ME/CFS
retroviruses
XMRV
murine leukemia virus
PCR
retroelements
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00108/full

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