Current status of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related retrovirus in chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer: Reach for a scorecard, not a prescription pad

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1463-1466

  Kearney, Mary ^a   Maldarelli, Frank ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIC VIRUS; XENOTROPIC VIRUS;

FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 78349287015     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657169     Document Type: Note

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