Ohio State University press release.So they tested six(!) patients, and on that basis the claim to have identified "at least a subset of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)". One does not need to read any further.
Discovery Could Lead to Faster Diagnosis For Some Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Cases
COLUMBUS, Ohio - For the first time, researchers have landed on a potential diagnostic method to identify at least a subset of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a complex disorder with no known definitive cause or cure.
In a pilot study of six patients, scientists detected specific antibodies linked to latent Epstein-Barr virus reactivation in blood samples from people who had experienced classic CFS symptoms and responded to antiviral treatment. Control blood samples from 20 healthy people showed no such antibodies.
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And no only that, but "for the first time", none the less.
If anybody has identified subsets in CFS, it was Kathleen and Alan Light – long ago, with a much larger base of patients.
So who are these daft idiots, which lend their names to such BS?
Antibody to Epstein-Barr Virus Deoxyuridine Triphosphate Nucleotidohydrolase and Deoxyribonucleotide Polymerase in a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome SubsetMartin Lerner and Leonard Jason – guess my moderately elevated opinion of these two jokers just evaporated. While Lerner seemed a bit suspicious to me, Jason did not appear like someone who would participate in such publicity stunts – oh well.
A. Martin Lerner, Maria E. Ariza, Marshall Williams, Leonard Jason, Safedin Beqaj, James T. Fitzgerald, Stanley Lemeshow, Ronald Glaser
Maybe, just maybe, these results will hold up in a larger study – or maybe it goes the way of all Herpesviridae results in ME/CFS (I'm looking at you Jose Montoya).
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