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Just heard back from Dr. Jay Levy's office of UCSF (he was one of the first to identify HIV). He did not find evidence of XMRV in my blood.
I was XMRV-pos via culture from VIPdx, haven't heard back about serology yet. It seems most people to report back so far are negative for antibodies which is a bit worrisome. I thought antibodies would be be detected at a far greater rate than the physical virus.
A standardized assay cannot come soon enough!
I was XMRV-pos via culture from VIPdx, haven't heard back about serology yet. It seems most people to report back so far are negative for antibodies which is a bit worrisome. I thought antibodies would be be detected at a far greater rate than the physical virus.
A standardized assay cannot come soon enough!
Dr. Levy might be a well respected virologist/retrovirologist, but XMRV is a new virus and the people who know the most about it right now are people such as Dr. Mikovits, the Ruscettis, Dr. Silveman, Dr. Klein, Dr. Singh etc., and probably not yet Dr. Levy.