Origin of XMRV and its demise as a human pathogen associated with chronic fatigue syndrome

Viruses

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1312-1319

  Hohn, Oliver ^a   Bannert, Norbert ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFS; Origin; Recombination; XMRV

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSFORMATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS-RELATED VIRUS;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; GAMMARETROVIRUS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS;

EID: 80052166722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v3081312     Document Type: Article

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