Failure to Detect XMRV-Specific Antibodies in the Plasma of CFS Patients Using Highly Sensitive Chemiluminescence Immunoassays
Autor: | Brigitte T. Huber, Xiaoxing Qiu, Susan Levine, Brendan Oakes, John Hackett |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Article Subject
urologic and male genital diseases Microbiology law.invention Serology law Virology Chronic fatigue syndrome medicine Chemiluminescence Gammaretrovirus biology business.industry virus diseases medicine.disease biology.organism_classification QR1-502 Highly sensitive Leukemia Infectious Diseases biology.protein Antibody business Nested polymerase chain reaction Research Article |
Zdroj: | Advances in Virology Advances in Virology, Vol 2011 (2011) |
ISSN: | 1687-8647 1687-8639 |
Popis: | In 2009, Lombardi et al. reported their startling finding that the gammaretrovirus xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related retrovirus (XMRV) is present in 67% of blood samples of patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), as opposed to only 3.7% of samples from healthy individuals. However, we and others could not confirm these results, using a nested PCR assay. An alternative to this highly sensitive, but contamination-prone, technique is to measure the serological response to XMRV. Thus, we tested the plasma samples from our cohorts of CFS patients and healthy controls for the presence of XMRV-specific antibodies. Using two novel chemiluminescence immunoassays (CMIAs), we show that none of our samples have any XMRV-reactive antibodies. Taken together with our previous findings, we conclude that XMRV is not present in any human individual tested by us, regardless of CFS or healthy control. |
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