Abstract
Objectives
To investigate whether acute infection with Giardia lamblia is associated with fibromyalgia 10 years after infection and whether fibromyalgia is associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and chronic fatigue (CF) in this setting.
Methods
A cohort study was established...
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SUMMARY: Could the positive results of the early Fluge & Mella 2011 blinded phase II rituximab trial and 2015 open label phase II study be due to inadvertently including some Giardia lamblia ME/CFS patients in the cohort, from the 2004 Bergen Giardia...
Note: deals with 'chronic fatigue' rather than specifically looking at ME/CFS - the high baseline level of 'chronic fatigue' in the control group suggests it's a broad definition that's been used. Posting here anyway as my own initiating infection was Giardia...
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