ebv

Martin Lerner MD proposed that the reason why patients could have negative blood tests for virus yet still be infected was because the virus(es) that infected them became abortive and therefore unable to reproduce. What could cause this change?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0008ps8 From today's show. At 1:10:00 onwards there is a discussion on glandular fever that soon touches on M.E. The discussion is actually quite good - the expert (Dr Sarah Jarvis) describes the risk of glandular fever developing into M.E. and describes M.E...

There are at least eight herpes virus variants that infect humans. These include: Human herpes virus 1 (HHV1) is also known as herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1). Human herpes virus 2 (HHV2) is also called herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV2). Human herpes virus 3 (HHV3) is also called varicella-zoster...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30638421 https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/1352458518823940

Another look to see if the immune antibody signature to Human Herpes virus's in patients is different to controls. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.01946/full

Paywalled, https://jcp.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/16/jclinpath-2019-205822.full Sci hub, not available from Sci hub at time of posting.

Greetings! My first post, of what may be many. Please see the attached photo of a full EBV screening by Synlab. Unfortunately they only do this in Italy, and I cannot get the test at Synlab UK. Can anyone translate this please? Is it possible to request such tests from the local GP? Does...

Copied from the New Zealand thread This is the paper she is referring to: The pathway from glandular fever to chronic fatigue syndrome: can the cognitive behavioural model provide the map? I think the paper is worth a discussion because it is one of the few papers that actually tried to test...

Epstein-Barr Virus dUTPase Induces Neuroinflammatory Mediators: Implications for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Williams PhD MV[Author]&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=31040055 Abstract PURPOSE: Neuroinflammation is a common feature in...

Might be more appropriate in Other Health News and Research sub-forum, especially considering who the authors are, but thought it could start here. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159119301333

https://lymphomanewstoday.com/2019/04/23/epstein-barr-vaccination-could-cut-risk-of-b-cell-lymphoma-study-suggests/ Chronic B-cell activation — which can happen because of infectious mononucleosis, commonly caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) — triggers an excessive proliferation of certain...

For what it is worth: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399918309462

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/04/crispr-cas3-innovation-holds-promise-disease-cures-advancing-science I don't know the potential for ME, but the growing body of evidence of non-replicating viral genetic material hijacking some metabolic function makes this interesting. It was previously...

Free full text: https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000390 EBV-requisitioning physicians’ guess on fatigue state 6 months after acute EBV infection Tarjei Tørre Asprusten1, Maria Pedersen2, Eva Skovlund3,4, Vegard Bruun Wyller1,5 Abstract We assessed referring medical practitioner’s...

" Public Defence: Maria Pedersen – Pediatrics Cand.med. Maria Pedersen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Chronic “Chronic Fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Following acute Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in Adolescents” for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD)...

Provisionally accepted https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2019.00059/full full paper here: http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2019.00059/full I haven't read it all but not sure if I've posted it in the correct forum?: "EBV reactivation is a...

Somebody with ME was excited by this on Twitter https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/124714 Research ArticleClinical trialsNeuroscience Free access | 10.1172/jci.insight.124714 Epstein-Barr virus–specific T cell therapy for progressive multiple sclerosis Michael P. Pender,1,2,3 Peter A...

Have no idea of what any of this means. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0085387 Hope it's of some interest.

I've put this in Research Unrelated to ME/CFS for the time being as the authors seem to do lot of flip-flopping between Chronic Fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, it could be that it should be in Psychosocial Research. Open access at...

" A young mum who described herself as a party animal adrenaline junkie was left unable to cook, clean or wash herself by a disease some doctors don't think is real. Chantelle Parry, 31, fell ill with glandular fever two years ago. This set in motion a downward spiral that eventually led her...