Background and main text Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is
a complex and controversial clinical condition without having established causative factors …

Chronic fatiguing illnesses following well-documented infections and acute “infectious-like”
illnesses of uncertain cause have been reported for many decades. Chronic fatigue …

Next-generation sequencing was used for discovery and de novo assembly of a novel,
highly divergent DNA virus at the interface between the Parvoviridae and Circoviridae. The …

Background Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disease of unknown aetiology. Major CFS
symptom relief during cancer chemotherapy in a patient with synchronous CFS and …

Murine leukemia viruses (MLVs), including xenotropic-MLV–related virus (XMRV), have
been controversially linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). To explore this issue in …

Widespread in public databases, foreign contaminant sequences pose a substantial
obstacle in genomic analyses. Such contamination in viral genome databases is also …

A novel strategy for ultrasensitive detection of model protein based on the integration of
tyramide signal amplification (TSA) and polymerization-assisted signal amplification was …

Xenotropic murine leukemia virus (MLV)-related virus (XMRV) was first described in 2006 in
some human prostate cancers. But it drew little attention until 2009, when it was also found …

Metagenomic next-generation sequencing has transformed the discovery and diagnosis of
infectious disease, with the power to characterise the complete 'infectome'(bacteria, viruses …

Sequences of the novel gammaretrovirus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus
(XMRV) have been described in human prostate cancer tissue, although the amounts of …