Murine gammaretrovirus group G3 was not found in swedish patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Elfaitouri, Amal ^a   Shao, Xingwu ^a   Ulfstedt, Johan ^a   Muradrasoli, Shaman ^a   Wiener, Agnes ^a   Golbob, Sultan ^a   Öhrmalm, Christina ^a   Matousek, Michael ^b   Zachrisson, Olof ^b   Gottfries, Carl Gerhard ^b   Blomberg, Jonas ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; GAG PROTEIN; HISTONE; NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVELOPE GENE; ETHNICITY; FIBROMYALGIA; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PROVIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURAL GENE; SWEDEN; SWEDISH; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; C57BL MOUSE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIROLOGY;

GAMMARETROVIRUS; MURINAE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FIBROMYALGIA; GAMMARETROVIRUS; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GENOME; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROVIRUSES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 80053982650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024602     Document Type: Article

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