Abstract:
We interviewed 285 patients who visited our department claiming with a complaint of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and subsequently diagnosed 55 as having CFS, according to the criteria for CFS of the centers for disease control (CDC). We measured various virus antibody titers, 2-5, adenylate synthetase levels in the serum lymphocyte subset in blood, employing a double staining technique with monoclonal antibodies. In this paper, we pathoetiology of CFS, based on our findings and other researchers’ is discussed.
Source: Matsuda J, Gohchi K. Overview of our patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) from the pathoetiological aspects. Nihon Rinsho. 1992 Nov;50(11):2635-40. [Article in Japanese] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1287240