echovirus

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    Enterovirus testing - what to do next?

    As detailed in my post here, I went to Frankfurt's Institute of Virology to get checked for enteroviruses. I'm slightly confused by the cutoff for a positive result as I have two results that are 1:160, everything else less than that. The lab in Germany told me: "We only rate results as highly...
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    Betulinic acid (from chaga mushroom) a potent antiviral for echovirus

    Betulinic acid, which is naturally found in the chaga mushroom, has potent in vitro antiviral effects against echovirus 6 (and possibly for other echoviruses), with an amazingly low EC50 of 0.007 μM, a study found. By a pharmacokinetic calculation I performed, around 100 mg of betulinic acid...
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