Publication Date:
2010-05-15
Description:
Lombardi et al. (Reports, 23 October 2009, p. 585) reported a significant association between the human retrovirus XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). However, the cases with CFS and the control subjects in their study are poorly described and unlikely to be representative. Independent replication is a critical first step before accepting the validity of this finding.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lloyd, Andrew -- White, Peter -- Wessely, Simon -- Sharpe, Michael -- Buchwald, Dedra -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 May 14;328(5980):825; author reply 825. doi: 10.1126/science.1183706.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre for Infection and Inflammation Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052. a.lloyd@unsw.edu.au〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20466905" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Blood Cells/*virology
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Case-Control Studies
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Epidemiologic Research Design
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Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic/etiology/*virology
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Gammaretrovirus/*isolation & purification
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Humans
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Reproducibility of Results
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Retroviridae Infections/*virology
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Tumor Virus Infections/*virology
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
