XMRV on the world meeting of blood transfusion from June 26th to July 1st, 2010

[Xander]

XXXIst International Congress of the ISBT (International Society of Blood Transfusion) next week in Berlin (Germany), Congress Center

Programme Wednesday, June 30th, Parallel Session S40, 3.00 pm, p. (14) 135 ; http://www.isbt-web.org/berlin/files/wednesday.pdf

XMRV: ANALYSIS OF VIRAL KINETICS, TISSUE TROPISM AND IDENTIFICATION OF SEROLOGICAL MARKERS OF INFECTION J. Hackett Jr.* (USA), X. Qiu, P. Swanson, K.-C. Luk, J. das Gupta, N. Onlamoon, C. Gaughan, P. Sharma, R. Molinaro, R. Silverman, F. Villinger, S. Devare, G. Schochetman

 

[V99]

Great find Xander.

Those boxes keep on being ticked! We are closing in on this disease. :victory::victory::victory:

 

[Sam Carter]

I think this has already been published / presented and it's very interesting. If I've read it correctly a preliminary study by Abbott Diagnostics found evidence for XMRV infection in 0.1% of the American blood supply.

http://retroconference.org/2010/Abstracts/39393.htm