Chronic fatigue syndrome: xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, murine leukemia virus, both, or neither?

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Otto Erlwein et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010.

. 2010 Oct 26;107(43):E161; author reply E163-4.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1012441107. Epub 2010 Sep 30.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors.
Lo SC, Pripuzova N, Li B, Komaroff AL, Hung GC, Wang R, Alter HJ. Lo SC, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Sep 7;107(36):15874-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1006901107. Epub 2010 Aug 23. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010. Retraction in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jan 3;109(1):346. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1119641109. PMID: 20798047 Free PMC article. Retracted.

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