Mouse retroviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome: Does X (or P) mark the spot?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 15666-15667

  Courgnaud, Valerie ^a   Battini, Jean Luc ^a   Sitbon, Marc ^a   Mason, Andrew L ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CODON; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MOUSE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSEUDOTYPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRION; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; MICE; RETROVIRIDAE;

EID: 77957675952     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007944107     Document Type: Note

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