Failure to detect the novel retrovirus XMRV in chronic fatigue syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Erlwein, Otto ^a   Kaye, Steve ^a   McClure, Myra O ^a   Weber, Jonathan ^a   Wills, Gillian ^a   Collier, David ^b   Wessely, Simon ^b   Cleare, Anthony ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER TISSUE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; SCREENING; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS DETECTION; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKAEMIA VIRUS RELATED VIRUS; XENOTROPIC VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; VALIDATION STUDY; VIROLOGY;

MURINAE;

ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE;

EID: 77649137097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008519     Document Type: Article

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