…proportion of patients, yet previous studies of peripheral immunity have been discrepant and inconclusive. The UK ME/CFS Biobank, which has collected blood samples from nearly 300 clinically-confirmed ME/CFS patients, enables…
Abstract: This study used phylogenetic analysis based on a region of the 5′ non-translated region (5’NTR) of a variety of enteroviral sequences to compare sequences associated with chronic fatigue syndrome…
…for Disease Control and Prevention case-definition criteria. Twenty healthy subjects were included as controls. Blood samples were taken every 4 hours during a single 24-hour period. We performed a fluorometric…
…100 countries around the world, addressing such issues as preventing infectious and chronic diseases, environmental health, maternal and child health, health policy, climate change & health, and public health preparedness….
…Health, a highly-structured 260-item instrument designed to enable accurate psychiatric diagnoses. Other diagnostic studies (for example, sleep studies and electroencephalography) were ordered if necessary for individual patients. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN…
…NKH1+T3+ subset, which under normal circumstances represents only approximately 20% of the NK cell population. Source: Caligiuri M, Murray C, Buchwald D, Levine H, Cheney P, Peterson D, Komaroff…
…interpreted with great caution. Source: Buchwald D, Sullivan JL, Komaroff AL. Frequency of ‘chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection’ in a general medical practice. JAMA. 1987 May 1;257(17):2303-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3033338 …
…control-persons, these 15 patients had significantly higher antibody titers against various components of EBV and against cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex and measles viruses. Epstein-Barr virus serology could not reliably differentiate…
…syndrome. Eighty-six percent had serologic evidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Profound immunodeficiency was not present, but 71% had partial hypogammaglobulinemia, and minor abnormalities of T cell subsets were noted in…
…Jones JF, Williams M, Schooley RT, Robinson C, Glaser R. Antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus-specific DNase and DNA polymerase in the chronic fatigue syndrome. Arch Intern Med. 1988 Sep;148(9):1957-60. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2843138 …