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Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Recently published research from the UK's Imperial College London (ICL) regarding the XMRV  link to ME/CFS was heavily publicised by the British media. This research cast doubts on the research, published in Science magazine in October 2009, by the Whittemore-Peterson Institute (WPI), the Cleveland Clinic and the National Cancer Institute in which 67% of 101 chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients tested positive for infection with xenobiotic murine retrovirus (XMRV), a gammaretrovirus associated with a subset of prostate cancer. 

The Imperial College article in PLoS One is here.

The Whittemore-Peterson Institute has issued the following press release in reply to the publication of this research by ICL. The press release in English from the Whittemore-Peterson Institute - click here.

See the WPI press release in other European languages - click on image

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More details on the original research published in Science magazine - click here.

Press release from within UK by charity Invest in ME - click here

Documented involvement of Viruses in ME/CFS - click here

 


Last Update: 13 February 2010




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