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Home Authors retract paper on detection of murine leukemia virus-releated sequences in CFS patients

Authors retract paper on detection of murine leukemia virus-releated sequences in CFS patients

submitted by profvrr on December 27, 2011
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A paper that reported finding retroviral sequences in blood from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been retracted by the authors. Just four days ago the 2009 Science report of Lombardi and colleagues was editorially retracted. As 2011 comes to an end, so does the hypothesis that retroviruses are etiologic agents of CFS.
 
 

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