https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713193/
Dr. Fred Wang, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Medicine and Microbiology & Immunobiology
Abstract
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human herpesvirus that infects nearly all humans by adulthood and is associated with a...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/imj.11_14849
(It's free access but I think it's just a poster)
Jorge do Campo 1 and Vivienne Taylor 2
1 Noosa Hospital, Queensland, Australia
2 Ibuki Medical Centre, Noosa, Queensland, Australia
Abstract
Background: Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) is a...
https://www.nature.com/articles
Open access
Jungang Chen, Maryam Foroozesh & Zhiqiang Qin
Abstract
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs), viral-associated sequences, are normal components of the human genome and account for 8–9% of our genome. These original provirus sequences can be...
Very interesting article in the Mail Online.
‘Why many of those struck by Long Covid may be suffering from glandular fever: Blood tests on some patients are coming back positive for ‘reactivated’ Epstein-Barr - and it could lead to a range of effective treatments
Most would test positive for...
Full title:
Salivary DNA loads for human herpes viruses 6 and 7 are correlated with disease phenotype in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.06.20248486v1
Abstract
Background
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) involves severe fatigue, unrefreshing sleep, and cognitive impairment, leading to functional difficulties; prior studies have not evaluated risk factors with behavioral and immune data collected prior to developing...
Professor Anders Rosén and Eirini Apostolou, PhD, at Linköping University are planning a study consisting of 3 subprojects, looking at cytokines, EBV enzyme, antibodies and reactivated retro virus etc in blood and saliva samples from 200 mild, moderate and severe ME patients and 200 controls...
Significance
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-associated diseases represent a major cause of morbidity worldwide, accounting for at least 1.5% of the global cancer burden, and contributing to autoimmunity.
Viral reactivation from latency is associated with an increased risk of EBV-driven cancers, and...
Nuno Sepúlveda, Jorge Carneiro, Eliana M. Lacerda and Luis C. Nacul
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02684/abstract
Study made with the UK ME/CFS Biobank
Full text not available yet, will be published soon.
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