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. 2011 Feb;17(2):314-5.
doi: 10.3201/eid1702.100978.

No xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus detected in fibromyalgia patients

Joanna Luczkowiak, Olalla Sierra, Jorge Juan González-Martín, Gabriel Herrero-Beaumont, Rafael Delgado

No xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus detected in fibromyalgia patients

Joanna Luczkowiak et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Feb.
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Testing for xenotropic murine leukemia virus–related virus (XMRV) in patients with fibromyalgia. Lanes 1 and 13, molecular weight marker ΦX174RF HaeIII; lanes 2–5, hBG for patients 1–4 (primers: hBG-FI-170/hBG-RI-273 (103 bp); lanes 6–12, positive control (pcDNA3.1-XMRV-Vp62) 1,000 copies (lanes 6 and 10) and 100 copies (lanes 7–9 and 11–12); lane 6, primers gag 419F/1154R (735 bp); lane 7, primers gag MLV-GAG-I-F/MLV-GAG-I-R (413 bp); lane 8, primers gag MLV-NP116/MLV-NP117 (380 bp); lane 9, primers gag XMRV-FI-441/XMRV-RI-566 (125 bp); lane 10, primers env 5922F/6273R (351 bp); lane 11, primers env 5922F/6173R (252 bp); lane 12, primers env 5942F/6159R (218 bp).
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