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    Article: Four Viruses! Alter Paper Confirms Retroviral Findings in CFS

    I've written a post elsewhere on this forum about the possibility that other factors have to bring down our immune systems to enable XMRV (or closely related MLV-related viruses) to infect en replicate in humans. After infection has firmly settled within the host, this virus could be able to...
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    NIH/FDA XMRV Paper by Dr. Alter Out!

    I thought about this too, and i think an initial environmental factor (which include infections) first has to suppress an effective Th1 immune response in the host to enable XMRV to infect that person and start to cause immune dysfunction on its own. I have another study, which is rather...
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    Article: Four Viruses! Alter Paper Confirms Retroviral Findings in CFS

    Yeah, i downloaded these slides when they where a 'hot topic'! This is what the slide about XMRV and MLVs said: --- Comments on the Agent Du Jour -XMRV The data in the Lombardi, et al Science manuscript are extremely strong and likely true, despite the controversy. Not only have they...
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    Article: Four Viruses! Alter Paper Confirms Retroviral Findings in CFS

    Even when the CDC is able to detect the virus in a panel of samples it is still possible that they have problems with collecting/storing/handling the samples before the actual testing. Especially when they used plasma. It could be critical to immediately centrifuge whole blood to get the plasma...
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    Article: Four Viruses! Alter Paper Confirms Retroviral Findings in CFS

    I have entered the following search terms in pubmed to find this article: ("Retrovirology"[Journal]) AND Gerwyn ("Retrovirology"[Journal]) AND Gerwyn[Author] this search gives me no results. Can you give an accurate reference to this paper; date of publication, volume, issue, authors...