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Would be interesting to know how many find evidence of persistent infection vs those who dont.
The method to dicipher persistent infection in ME/CFS is different from healthy people. So if you consider yourself free of persistent infection I would appreciate if you could add that you would be considered positive for persistent infection by a ME specialist like HIP writes in the ME road map. https://mecfsroadmap.altervista.org/
The generel rule for persistent enteroviruses by Dr Chia is igg titers 16 times higher than the referance threshold. Though that number is not set in stone it could be used as an educated guess based on Dr Chia's calibration of the ARUP Lab coxsackievirus B and echovirus tests.
« But to an ME/CFS specialist, low IgM with chronically high IgG signifies there may be ongoing active infection in the tissues — not a normal active infection which produces lots of viral particles, but a chronic active infection in the form of a non-cytolytic enterovirus infection, an abortive herpesvirus infection, or a partial reactivation of a virus.»
Extra Rule for Interpreting Antibody Levels in ME/CFS:
IgM: Low
IgG: High
Interpretation:
Chronic low-level active infection in the tissues.
This fourth rule is a controversial though, as some researchers believe the high IgG antibody levels in ME/CFS are of no significance, and do not believe ME/CFS is caused by ongoing infection. However in the case of enterovirus ME/CFS, there is considerable evidence
for chronic active low-level infection in the tissues, which are the likely cause of these chronically high IgG.»
The method to dicipher persistent infection in ME/CFS is different from healthy people. So if you consider yourself free of persistent infection I would appreciate if you could add that you would be considered positive for persistent infection by a ME specialist like HIP writes in the ME road map. https://mecfsroadmap.altervista.org/
The generel rule for persistent enteroviruses by Dr Chia is igg titers 16 times higher than the referance threshold. Though that number is not set in stone it could be used as an educated guess based on Dr Chia's calibration of the ARUP Lab coxsackievirus B and echovirus tests.
« But to an ME/CFS specialist, low IgM with chronically high IgG signifies there may be ongoing active infection in the tissues — not a normal active infection which produces lots of viral particles, but a chronic active infection in the form of a non-cytolytic enterovirus infection, an abortive herpesvirus infection, or a partial reactivation of a virus.»
Extra Rule for Interpreting Antibody Levels in ME/CFS:
IgM: Low
IgG: High
Interpretation:
Chronic low-level active infection in the tissues.
This fourth rule is a controversial though, as some researchers believe the high IgG antibody levels in ME/CFS are of no significance, and do not believe ME/CFS is caused by ongoing infection. However in the case of enterovirus ME/CFS, there is considerable evidence
for chronic active low-level infection in the tissues, which are the likely cause of these chronically high IgG.»
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