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Diagnostic accuracy of symptoms characterising chronic fatigue syndrome

Abstract: PURPOSE: To determine the diagnostic accuracy for single symptoms and clusters of symptoms to distinguish between individuals with and …

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Long-chain acylcarnitine deficiency in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Potential involvement of altered carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I activity

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: The underlying aetiology of chronic fatigue syndrome is currently unknown; however, in the light of carnitine’s critical role in mitochondrial …

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No evidence for XMRV in German CFS and MS patients with fatigue despite the ability of the virus to infect human blood cells in vitro

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV), a novel human retrovirus originally identified in prostate cancer tissues, has recently …

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Cognitive impairment in fatigue and sleepiness associated conditions

Abstract: Although relating to very different concepts, sleepiness and fatigue are often confounded. However, both fatigue-associated conditions such as the chronic …

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An unbiased metagenomic search for infectious agents using monozygotic twins discordant for chronic fatigue

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Chronic fatigue syndrome is an idiopathic syndrome widely suspected of having an infectious or immune etiology. We applied …

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Classifying medication use in clinical research

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Medication use data are usually collected in clinical research. Yet no standardized method for categorizing these exists, either …

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Adolescents with severe chronic fatigue syndrome can make a full recovery

Abstract: The needs of children and adolescents severely affected by chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) are currently inadequately addressed …

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Plasma neuropeptide Y: a biomarker for symptom severity in chronic fatigue syndrome

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a complex, multi-symptom illness with a multisystem pathogenesis involving alterations in the nervous, …

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Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome

Abstract: In October 2009, we reported the first direct isolation of infectious xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV). In that …

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Cerebral blood flow is reduced in chronic fatigue syndrome as assessed by arterial spin labeling

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Chronic fatigue syndrome is diagnosed by a set of clinical criteria and therefore is probably heterogeneous. Earlier reports …

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