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Its just an abstract but a large study (almost 1000 people) looking for XMRV in AIDS found zero using quantitative real-time PCR. We don't know what sequences they looked for. My recollection is that nested PCR is better.
I looked up the researchers - they are published but not particularly well published. Why after the first couple of hundred negative samples would you keep testing? Really, what a waste of money to test
1000 people. Maybe they were from different regions across the US - so they want to get a regional analysis? It did say it was in the Multicenter Aids study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20597166
I looked up the researchers - they are published but not particularly well published. Why after the first couple of hundred negative samples would you keep testing? Really, what a waste of money to test
1000 people. Maybe they were from different regions across the US - so they want to get a regional analysis? It did say it was in the Multicenter Aids study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20597166
AIDS. 2010 Jul 17;24(11):1784-5.
Absence of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus in blood cells of men at risk for and infected with HIV.
Kunstman KJ, Bhattacharya T, Flaherty J, Phair JP, Wolinsky SM.
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Abstract
Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus has been detected in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and in 3.7% of healthy controls from the same geographic region. We evaluated 996 men who were participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study for xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus sequences in blood cells by means of a real-time quantitative PCR assay. Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus was detected in none of the men on the basis of the absence of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus DNA, suggesting that infection may be population-specific.