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Dr. Chia & Enteroviral infection: Which virus or viruses is he referring to?

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When Dr. Chia refers to enteroviral infection, does anyone know which one he means? When I researched enteroviruses, they are numerous kinds. I was wondering if anyone knows. Thanks very much.
 

WillowJ

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here is Dr. Chia's foundation
http://enterovirusfoundation.org/index.shtml

The citation they chose for ME is:
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a complex and debilitating illness that affects the brain and multiple body systems. Symptoms include widespread muscle and joint pain, cognitive difficulties, chronic, often severe mental and physical exhaustion and other characteristic symptoms in a previously healthy and active person.

A recent study found VP1, RNA and non-cytopathic viruses in the stomach biopsy specimens of CFS/ME patients with chronic abdominal complaints. A significant subset of CFS/ME patients may have a chronic, disseminated, non-cytolytic form of enteroviral infection, which could be diagnosed by stomach biopsy.

For more information:
Chia, JKS, Chia, AY;(2008), "Chronic fatigue syndrome is associated with chronic enteroviral infection of the stomach," Journal of Clinical Pathology 2008;61:43-48.
http://enterovirusfoundation.org/associations.shtml

sounds like mutiple kinds

http://enterovirusfoundation.org/chronicinfections.shtml
 

ixchelkali

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I think he's interested in any non-polio enterovirus in ME/CFS, but his 2005 study mentions finding six coxsackieviruses and five echoviruses. He also mentions that "Three patients with strongly positive enteroviral RNA in their PBMC had no detectable neutralising antibody to the 11 enteroviruses tested, which suggested that infections could be caused by the other echoviruses or enteroviruses not identified by commercially available neutralising antibody tests."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770761/?tool=pubmed
 
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Thank you so much

I think he's interested in any non-polio enterovirus in ME/CFS, but his 2005 study mentions finding six coxsackieviruses and five echoviruses. He also mentions that "Three patients with strongly positive enteroviral RNA in their PBMC had no detectable neutralising antibody to the 11 enteroviruses tested, which suggested that infections could be caused by the other echoviruses or enteroviruses not identified by commercially available neutralising antibody tests."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770761/?tool=pubmed

Good god. Thank you for this incredible link.

My friend is printing that article from the Journal of Clinical Pathology and showing it to
all his docs and I will show it to my doc!
Great work!Thank you.