A metagenomic approach to investigate the microbial causes of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: Moving beyond XMRV

Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and Behavior

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 185-189

  Miller, Ruth R ^a   Gardy, Jennifer L ^a,b   Tang, Patrick ^a,c   Patrick, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^c British Columbia Centres for Disease Control Public Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOME; MICROORGANISM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84939546767     PISSN: 21641846     EISSN: 21641862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21641846.2013.812831     Document Type: Editorial

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