Enteroviruses in chronic fatigue syndrome: “now you see them, now you don’t”

Comment on: Enterovirus related metabolic myopathy: a postviral fatigue syndrome. [J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003]

 

In the paper by Lane et al(see pp 1382– 1386)1 an association was found between abnormal exercise lactate response and enterovirus sequences in the muscle of some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The paper rekindles the old saga of enteroviruses, muscle inflammation, and fatigue.

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Source: Dalakas MC. Enteroviruses in chronic fatigue syndrome: “now you see them, now you don’t”. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003 Oct;74(10):1361-2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1757390/  (Full article)

 

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