Publication Date:
2011-06-02
Description:
Members of the gammaretroviruses--such as murine leukemia viruses (MLVs), most notably XMRV [xenotropic murine leukemia virus (X-MLV)-related virus--have been reported to be present in the blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). We evaluated blood samples from 61 patients with CFS from a single clinical practice, 43 of whom had previously been identified as XMRV-positive. Our analysis included polymerase chain reaction and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction procedures for detection of viral nucleic acids and assays for detection of infectious virus and virus-specific antibodies. We found no evidence of XMRV or other MLVs in these blood samples. In addition, we found that these gammaretroviruses were strongly (X-MLV) or partially (XMRV) susceptible to inactivation by sera from CFS patients and healthy controls, which suggested that establishment of a successful MLV infection in humans would be unlikely. Consistent with previous reports, we detected MLV sequences in commercial laboratory reagents. Our results indicate that previous evidence linking XMRV and MLVs to CFS is likely attributable to laboratory contamination.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Knox, Konstance -- Carrigan, Donald -- Simmons, Graham -- Teque, Fernando -- Zhou, Yanchen -- Hackett, John Jr -- Qiu, Xiaoxing -- Luk, Ka-Cheung -- Schochetman, Gerald -- Knox, Allyn -- Kogelnik, Andreas M -- Levy, Jay A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Jul 1;333(6038):94-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1204963. Epub 2011 May 31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Wisconsin Viral Research Group, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21628393" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Antibodies, Viral/blood
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Base Sequence
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Blood/*virology
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Child
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Child, Preschool
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Complement System Proteins/immunology
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DNA Contamination
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DNA, Viral/blood
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Drug Contamination
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Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic/blood/immunology/*virology
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Female
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Humans
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Indicators and Reagents
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Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics/isolation & purification
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Leukocytes, Mononuclear/*virology
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Retroviridae Infections/diagnosis/*virology
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Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus/genetics/immunology/*isolation &
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purification
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Young Adult
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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