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Absence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-
related virus in UK patients with chronic fatigue
syndrome
Harriet CT Groom
1
, Virginie C Boucherit
1
, Kerry Makinson
2
, ... xenotropic
murine leukaemia virus related virus (XMRV). A subse-
quent study demonstrated receptor usage typical of
murine xenotropic virus [2]....
... 0.0001 in both cases). Interestingly, the prevalence
of RF-positive patients increased to 37.5% in patients
affected by HCV presenting with articular involvement (3
of 8), and 66.7% in patients with ... with
RA, 8 patients with chronic HCV infection and associated
articular involvement and 31 patients with chronic HCV
infection without any joint involvement....
... surgery for coronary
artery bypass grafting are often at the end-stage of their
disease, with severely impaired LV function. Management
of patients with SLVD caused by coronary artery disease
remains ... therapy facilitates manip-
ulation of the heart with maintained hemodynamic sta-
bility and with reduced myocardial oxygen demand in
high-risk patients undergoing OPCAB su...
... N,
Simmons G, Hendry RM, Falkenberg VR, et al: Absence of evidence of
Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus- related virus infection in persons
with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and healthy controls in the United
States. ... van der Meer JW:
Prevalence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus- related virus in
patients with chronic fatigue syndrome in the Neth...
... pathways,
including amplifying the inflammatory process by inducing the
extravasion of neutrophils and the production of IL-8, inducing
an inflammatory reaction in the endothelia, and/or stimulating
lung ... that the expression of Cal
B and Cal A correlates with the inflammatory activity in sys-
temic vasculitis, thereby confirming the role of these proteins
in inflammatory re...
... fre-
quency of HBeAg positivity and higher levels of HBV
DNA indicating higher levels of HBV replication.
Studies on the impact of HIV infection in the natural
history of chronic HBV and the effect of ... history of HBV will change
in sub-Saharan A frica as more countries introduce
infant vaccination; this is likely to influence the rate of
HBV-HIV co-infection in the...
... sensitivity may contribute to the risk of
respiratory tract infection in cigarette smokers. More-
over, since dyspnea is usually a symptom at a relatively
advanced stage of respiratory tract infection ... concentration axis), indicat-
ing the dose of the urge-to-cough score = 1.
Perception of dyspnea
Dyspnea was induced by introducing an inspiratory
resistive load to the external br...
... men, with only two cases
occurring in women. A case of Hughes-Stovin syndrome occurring in a woman is presented in this report. She was
treated successfully with multimodality treatment that includes ... affects mainly men, with only two
cases describing women [11]. Patients usually present
with fever, chills, dyspnea, cough, hemoptysis, and
venous thrombosis [9,10].
The m...
... experience
variability from day to day in the severity of coughing.
Thus, severity of cough is likely best measured on a daily
basis to capture the natural variability in cough severity
from day to day.
These findings ... evaluate patients& apos; per-
spectives on cough symptom severity by conducting focus
groups with chronic cough patients with the end goal of
selecting, a...
... Breuer J, Kerr JR, Stoye JP, Bishop KN: Absence of
xenotropic murine leukaemia virus- related virus in UK patients with
chronic fatigue syndrome. Retrovirology 2010, 7:10.
18. van Kuppeveld FJ, ... Melchers WJ,
Swanink CM, Bleijenberg G, Netea MG, Galama JM, van der Meer JW:
Prevalence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus- related virus in
patients w...