Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus–related Gammaretrovirus in Respiratory Tract
- Nicole Fischer
- Claudia Schulz
- Kristin Stieler
- Oliver Hohn
- Christoph Lange
- Sung Sup Park
- Martin Aepfelbacher
Publication date
June 2010
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
Xenotropic murine leukemia virus–related gammaretrovirus (XMRV) has been recently associated with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. To identify nucleic acid sequences, we examined respiratory secretions by using PCR. XMRV-specific sequences were detected in 2%–3% of samples from 168 immunocompetent carriers and ≈10% of samples from 161 immunocompromised patients
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