Enterovirus testing - what to do next?

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green_echo

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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.

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The lab in Germany told me:
"We only rate results as highly positive from a titer of 1:1280 and above. Titration is carried out by us up to this value."

As I understand it, the cutoff for ArminLabs to be considered positive by the lab is 1:640 rather than 1:1280, so could the cutoff for a chronic infection at the German lab be higher, at, say 1:320?

If not, and 1:160 would be sufficiently high, should I wait six months or so and retest, to see if my titers for CVB2 and EV9 remain high?

I'm currently doing some treatment for Lyme and Bartonella coinfections, so I would still do that first, then perhaps look into Oxymatrine for the CVB2 and lamivudine for EV9.

Would really appreciate anyone's thoughts on this! Thank you
 
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On the ARUP Lab coxsackievirus B and echovirus tests, Dr Chia calibrated those for ME/CFS testing, and he states that titres of 1:160 to 1:320 and higher are indicative of a chronic active infection.

But really, each lab should be calibrated, so the 1:160 threshold that Dr Chia uses may not necessarily translate to labs other than ARUP.

However, note that 1:160 is 16 times higher than the 1:10 reference for negative on the ARUP tests. So as a rough guide, for other labs, we might calculate the threshold for an active infection to be 16 times the reference for negative.


green_echo said:
perhaps look into Oxymatrine for the CVB2 and lamivudine for EV9.
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Dr Chia also uses tenofovir to treat enterovirus ME/CFS, so that may be worth looking into.
 
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