New research shows virus previously linked to chronic fatigue syndrome is a lab contaminant

Monday, December 20, 2010 - 09:50 in Health & Medicine

A virus previously thought to be associated with chronic fatigue syndrome is not the cause of the disease, a detailed study has shown. The research shows that cell samples used in previous research were contaminated with the virus identified as XMRV and that XMRV is present in the mouse genome...

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