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  1. Pyrrhus

    Whole blood human transcriptome and virome analysis of ME/CFS patients experiencing PEM following CPET (Bouquet et al., 2019)

    Not new, but this 2019 publication by virologist Charles Chiu in collaboration with the Workwell foundation probably deserves its own thread. The study looked at whole blood, including white blood cells, in 14 female patients diagnosed with the Canadian Consensus Criteria: Whole blood human...