MicrobeWorld

TWiV Special: A paradigm for pathogen de-discovery

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and W. Ian Lipkin

Vincent and Ian review a multicenter blinded analysis which finds no association between chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and XMRV or polytropic murine leukemia virus.

Right-click to download TWiV Special XMRV (53 MB .mp3, 44 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• Multicenter blinded analysis of CFS and XMRV/pMLV (mBio)
• Press release on multicenter study (pdf)
• Press conference webcast
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