Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome is characterized by the lack of specific symptoms and laboratory abnormalities.
Most patients with one or both syndromes have mycoplasma infection, claimed to be regenerating return to their premorbid state after long-term antibiotic therapy, and the infection can not be detected after recovery.
Further prospective studies should determine whether such an infection is present in a relatively larger proportion of all patient populations with these syndromes.
The article is partly based on an article published in Rheumatology International 2003
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Source: Endresen GK. Systemic Mycoplasma blood infection in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2004 Jan 22;124(2):203-5. [Article in Norwegian] http://tidsskriftet.no/article/960407 (Full article)