XMRV Link to CFS Accelerates Scientific Inquiry and Sustains Media Interest

(Updated most recently on March 19, 2012)

CFS has been linked to a family of murine leukemia virus-related viruses, including XMRV. High profile studies have expanded research interest and sustained media interest. Keep up with the latest news.

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CFS-specific studies of XMRV

• Identification of XMRV Infection-Associated microRNAs in Four Cell Types in Culture, PLoS ONE (March 16, 2012)
• Multiple Sources of Contamination in Samples from Patients Reported to Have XMRV Infection, PLoS ONE (Feb. 20, 2012)
• Intrinsic DNA synthesis fidelity of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus reverse transcriptase, FEBS Journal (Feb. 17, 2012)
• No evidence for the involvement of XMRV or MCV in the pathogenesis of breast cancer, British Journal of Cancer (Feb. 16, 2012)
• The tale of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, Journal of General Virology (Feb. 13, 2012)
• Absence of XMRV in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells of ARV-Treatment Naïve HIV-1 Infected and HIV-1/HCV Coinfected Individuals and Blood Donors, PLoS ONE (Feb. 13, 2012)
• The scientific method at work: xenotropic murine leukemia virus–related virus is neither a cause of chronic fatigue syndrome nor a threat to the blood supply, Transfusion (Jan. 12, 2012)
• Development and application of a high-throughput microneutralization assay: lack of xenotropic murine leukemia virus–related virus and/or murine leukemia virus detection in blood donors, Transfusion (Jan. 12, 2012)
• A Tale of Two Viruses: Why AIDS Was Pinned to HIV, but Chronic Fatigue Remains a Mystery, by Vincent Racaniello, PhD, The Crux, Discover (Jan. 12, 2012)
• Detection of Murine Leukemia Virus in the Epstein-Barr virus-positive human B-cell line JY using a computational RNA-seq based exogenous agent detection pipeline, PARSES, Journal of Virology (Jan. 11, 2012)
• “XMRV papers retracted,” by Ansu Varughese, BioTechniques (Jan. 11, 2012)
• XMRV and prostate cancer—a 'final' perspective, Nature Reviews Urology
  (Jan. 10, 2012)
• Long-Term Infection and Vertical Transmission of a Gammaretrovirus in a Foreign Host Species, PLoS ONE, (Jan. 3, 2012)
• Restricted Replication of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus in Pigtailed Macaques, Journal of Virology (Jan. 2012)
• No evidence of cross-species transmission of mouse retroviruses to animal workers exposed to mice, Transfusion (Dec. 30, 2011)
• Prevalence of XMRV infection in different risk populations in Spain, AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses (Dec. 29, 2011)
• No Evidence of Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Viruses in Live Attenuated Human Vaccines, PL0S ONE (Dec. 22, 2011)
• Detection of Murine Leukemia Virus or Mouse DNA in Commercial RT-PCR Reagents and Human DNAs, HaoQiang Zheng, Hongwei Jia, Anupama Shankar, Walid Heneine, William M. Switzer* PLoS ONE, (Dec. 20, 2011)
• The Human Lung Adenocarcinoma Cell Line EKVX Produces an Infectious Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus, viruses (dec. 19, 2011)
• 6 newsmakers for 2011, Nature Medicine (Dec. 2011)
• Downregulation of APOBEC3G by Xenotropic Murine Leukemia-Virus Related Virus (XMRV) in Prostate Cancer Cells, Virology Journal (Dec. 12, 2011)
• The end of the association between XMRV, MLV-like viruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, (editorial) by Athe Tsibris, Virulence (Nov/Dec 2011)
• Xenotropic murine leukemia virus–related virus does not pose a risk to blood recipient safety, Transfusion (Nov. 21, 2011)
• No Evidence for XMRV Nucleic Acids, Infectious Virus or Anti-XMRV Antibodies in Canadian Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, PLoS ONE (Nov. 17, 2011)
• Xpr1 is an Atypical G-protein Coupled Receptor that Mediates Xenotropic and Polytropic Murine Retrovirus Neurotoxicity, Journal of Virology (Nov. 16, 2011)
• Chronic Fatigue Researcher Sued, by Jef Akst, TheScientist (Nov. 15, 2011)
• Absence of Detectable XMRV and Other MLV-Related Viruses in Healthy Blood Donors in the United States, Plos ONE (Nov. 14, 2011)
• Desperately Seeking XMRV, Science (Nov. 11, 2011)
• Presentations and Poster papers at the 12th Annual Symposium on Antiviral Drug Resistance (Nov. 6-9, 2011):
  • The Genesis of XMRV through Recombination, Delviks-Frankenberry
  • Multiple Sources of Contamination in Samples from Patients Reported to Have XMRV Infection, Kearney
  • POSTER 30- Failure to Confirm XMRV/MLV Nucleic Acid in the Blood of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • POSTER 31- Large-Scale Screening for Infectious Agents: Finding HCV and Looking for XMRV
• Retrovirus and Chronic Fatigue, by Tracy Hampton, PhD, JAMA (Nov. 2, 2011)
• No xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) detected in Swedish monozygotic twins discordant for chronic fatigue, Journal of General and Molecular Virology (Oct. 2011)
• Rituxan: re-energizing CFS, SciBX: Science-Business eXchange (Oct. 27, 2011)
• False negative results from using common PCR reagents, BioMed Central
  (Oct. 27, 2011)
• Characterization, Mapping and Distribution of the Two XMRV Parental Proviruses, Journal of Virology (Oct. 26, 2011)
• Development of sensitive single-round pol or env RT-PCR assays to screen for XMRV in multiple sample types, Journal of Virological Methods (Oct. 25, 2011)
• Seroprevalence of xenotropic murine leukemia virus–related virus in normal and retrovirus-infected blood donors, Transfusion (Oct. 24, 2011)
• Special Issue: Abstract Presentations from the AABB Annual Meeting and CTTXPO, Transfusion (Oct. 22, 2011)
• Investigation of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) in human and other cell lines, Biologicals (Oct. 12, 2011)
• No Detection of XMRV in Blood Samples and Tissue Sections from Prostate Cancer Patients in Northern Europe, PLoS ONE (Oct. 12, 2011)
• Murine Gammaretrovirus Group G3 Was Not Found in Swedish Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, PLoS ONE (Oct. 12, 2011)
• Scientist who linked chronic fatigue syndrome to XMRV is sacked, by Clare Dyer, BMJ (Oct. 11, 2011)
• In vivo hypermutation of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of rhesus macaque by APOBEC3 proteins, Virology (Oct 5, 2011)
• Xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus (XMRV) does not cause chronic fatigue, Trends in Microbiology (Oct 5, 2011)
• Mechanism for XMRV neurotoxicity, Retrovirology (Oct. 3, 2011)
• Quantitative Assays for Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus, Journal of Veternary Medical Science (Sept. 30, 2011) [Epub ahead of print]
• The Waning Conflict Over XMRV and CFS, by Jon Cohen, Science (Sept. 30, 2011)
• Role of Infection and Neurologic Dysfunction in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Seminars in Neurology (Sept. 30, 2011)
• XMRV is Not Associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Patients from Different Areas of the US in the 1990s, by Jon Cohen, ScienceInsider (Sept. 27, 2011)
• Study linking chronic fatigue syndrome with retrovirus is partially retracted, British Medical Journal (Sept. 26, 2011)
• Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus is Not Associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Patients from Different Areas of the US in the 1990s, Virology Journal (Sept. 24, 2011)
• False Positive, by Jon Cohen and Martin Enserink, Science (Sept. 22, 2011)
• Partial Retraction, Science (Sept. 22, 2011)
• Failure to Confirm XMRV/MLVs in the Blood of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Multi-Laboratory Study, Science (Sept. 22, 2011)
• Live Chat: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome—Science and Controversy, by Martin Enserink, Science (Sept. 22, 2011)
• Analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms in XMRV patient-derived integration sites reveals contamination from cell lines acutely infected by XMRV Journal of Virology (Sept. 21, 2011)
• Susceptibility of human primary neuronal cells to Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related (XMRV) virus infection, Virology Journal (Sept. 20, 2011)
• XMRV accelerates cellular proliferation, transformational activity, and invasiveness of prostate cancer cells by downregulating, The Prostate (Sept. 19, 2011)
• No detectable XMRV in subjects with chronic fatigue syndrome from Quebec, Virology (Sept. 16, 2011)
• Biochemical, inhibition and inhibitor resistance studies of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus reverse transcriptase, Nucleic Acids Resesarch (Sept. 8, 2011)
• XMRV: Usage of Receptors and potential Co-receptors, Virology Journal
  (Sept. 6, 2011)
• Presence of murine leukemia virus (MLV)-related virus gene sequences in a commercial RT-PCR reagent, Clinical Laboratory (Sept. 6, 2011)
• Xenotropic and Other Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Viruses in Humans, Advances in Virology (Sept. 5, 2011)
• In support of XMRV researchers, EveryONE - PLoSONE Blogs (Sept. 2, 2011)
• Special Issue of Advances in Virology, (Sept. 2011)
• Nucleic Acid, Antibody, and Virus Culture Methods to Detect Xenotropic MLV-Related Virus (XMRV) in Macaque and Human Blood Samples, Advances in Virology
  (Aug. 27, 2011)
• Chronic Fatigue Scientists Get Death Threats, by Tia Ghose, TheScientist
  (Aug. 23, 2011)
• Phylogenetic analysis of MLV sequences from longitudinally sampled CFS patients suggests PCR contamination rather than viral evolution, Journal of Virology (Aug. 17, 2011)
• The retrovirus XMRV is not directly involved in the pathogenesis of common types of lymphoid malignancy, Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention
  (Aug. 13, 2011)
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Association With the Human Retrovirus XMRV, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice (Aug. 10, 2011)
• Origin of XMRV and its demise as a human pathogen associated with CFS, Viruses (July 27, 2011)
• CFS: understanding a complex illness, Nature Reviews Neuroscience (July 27, 2011)
• XMRV in monozygotic twins discordant for CFS, ScienceDirect (July 26, 2011)
• Murine leukemia viruses: Biology and replication, Advances in Virology
  (July 25, 2011)
• Is XMRV a causal virus for prostate cancer? Asian Journal of Andrology
  (July 18, 2011)
• Righting scientific wrongs, Nature Reviews Microbiology (July 17, 2011)
• Prostate cancer: XMRV—contaminant, not cause? by Suzanne J. Farley, Nature Reviews Urology (July 12, 2011)
• Lack of detection of XMRV in HIV-1 lymphoma patients, Advances in Virology (July 11, 2011)
• Frequent detection of infectious xenotropic murine leukemia virus (XMLV) in human cultures established from mouse xenografts, Cancer Biology & Therapy
  (July 8, 2011, published ahead of print in the Oct. 2011 issue)
• EDITORIAL: Too soon to translate? NatureMedicine (July 7, 2011)
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Link to Retrovirus Likely the Result of Lab Contamination, Studies Find, Neurology Today (July 7, 2011)
• Mouse Virus Not Linked to Chronic Fatigue, Sleep Review (July 2011)
• Endogenous Murine Leukemia Viruses: Relationship to XMRV and Related Sequences Detected in Human DNA Samples, Advances in Virology (July 7, 2011)
• 'Final Nail' for XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? by Emma Hitt, PhD, Medscape (free registration required) (July 1, 2011)
• No XMRV Retrovirus Detected in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Articles of Significant Interest Selected from This Issue by the Editors (Shin et al.), Journal of Virology (July 2011)
• Study Raises Doubts About Virus and Chronic Fatigue, NIH News in Health
  (July 2011)
• The left half of XMRV is present in an endogenous retrovirus of NIH/3T3 Swiss mouse cells, Journal of Virology (June 22, 2011)
• Commentary: Living with CFS/ME, by Ollie Cornes, British Medical Journal
  (June 22, 2011)
• XMRV and CFS—the sad end of a story, The Lancet (June 21, 2011)
• Phylogeny-directed search for murine leukemia virus - like retroviruses in vertebrate genomes, and in patients suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Prostate Cancer, Advances in Virology (June 11, 2011)
• Failure to detect XMRV-specific antibodies in the plasma of CFS patients using Highly Sensitive Chemiluminescence Immunoassays, Advances in Virology
  (June 10, 2011)
• Testing strategies for detection of XMRV infection, Advances in Virology
  (June 10, 2011)
• XMRV-Related Abstracts from the 15th Conf. on Human Retrovirology: HTLV and Related Viruses, posted to Research1st.com (June 8, 2011)
• Science asks researchers to withdraw paper on chronic fatigue syndrome and infectious retrovirus, by Matthew Limb, British Medical Journal (June 6, 2011)
• NIH Updates Website With XMRV Study Info, posted to Research1st.com
  (June 5, 2011)
• Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) in prostate cancer cells likely represents a laboratory artifact, Oncotarget (June 2, 2011)
• No Evidence of Murine-Like Gammaretroviruses in CFS Patients Previously Identified as XMRV-Infected, ScienceXpress (May 31, 2011)
• Recombinant Origin of the Retrovirus XMRV, ScienceXpress (May 31, 2011)
• Editorial Expression of Concern, ScienceXpress (May 31, 2011)
• Sexual transmission of XMRV:a potential infection route, Advances in Virology
  (May, 25 2011)
• No evidence of XMRV or MuLV sequences in prostate cancer, diffuse large cell B cell lymphoma or the UK blood donor population, Advances in Virology (May 2011)
• PCR Master Mixes Harbour Murine DNA Sequences. Caveat Emptor! PLoS One
  (May 25, 2011)
• Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus (XMRV) is not found in Peripheral Blood Cells from treatment-Naive HIV+ patients, Clinical Microbiology and Infection (May 18, 2011)
• XMRV, Q fever and other emerging infections: impact on management of blood safety by R.Y. Dodd, ISBT Science Series (May 13, 2011)
• Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related Virus-associated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Reveals a Distinct Inflammatory Signature, In Vivo (May - June, 2011)
• Another study fails to find XMRV in chronic fatigue patients, by Bob Grant, TheScientist (May 9, 2011)
• XMRV, prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome, British Medical Bulletin
  (May 6, 2011)
• XMRV Not Associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Steven Novella, NEUROLOGICAblog (May 5, 2011)
• "More questions over link between XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome," by Ewen Callaway, Nature (May 5, 2011)
• No Association of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Viruses with Prostate Cancer, PLoS One (May 4, 2011)
• Absence of XMRV and other MLV-related viruses in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Journal of Virology (May 4, 2011)
• "Chronic fatigue syndrome, XMRV and blood safety," by Roger Dodd, Future Microbiology (Apr. 2011)
• XMRV as a Human Pathogen? Cell Host & Microbe (April 2011)
• Evidence and Controversies on the Role of XMRV in Prostate Cancer and CFS, UroToday (Apr. 20, 2011) (free registration required)
• Antibody Responses against Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus Envelope in a Murine Model, PLoS One (April 6, 2011)
• Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid from chronic fatigue syndrome patients for multiple human ubiquitous viruses and xenotropic murine leukemia-related virus, Annals of Neurology (April 6, 2011)
• The Lancet Infectious Diseases (April 2011)
  Mouse viruses and human disease, Alexandre FR Stewart and D William Cameron
  Mouse viruses and human disease, Gkikas Magiorkinis
• No Evidence of XMRV or Related Retroviruses in a London HIV-1-Positive Patient Cohort, PLoS One (Mar. 23, 2011)
• No association of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related virus with prostate cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome in Japan, Retrovirology (March 17, 2011)
• "Cause for concern," editorial, Nature (March 17, 2011)
• "Fighting for a cause," by Ewen Callaway, Nature (March 14, 2011)
• "More Negative Data for Link Between Mouse Virus and Human Disease," by Jon Cohen, Science (Mar. 11, 2011)
• "What is XMRV and should we be worried about it?" Transfusion (March 9, 2011)
• Investigation into the Presence of and Serological Response to XMRV in CFS Patients, PLoS One (Mar. 9, 2011)
• "The Blood Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus–Related Virus Scientific Research Working Group: mission, progress, and plans," Transfusion (March 1, 2011)
• "Walking on eggshells: PCR assays for XMRV detection," BioTechniques, by Andrew S. Wiecek (Feb. 23, 2011)
• Serologic and PCR testing of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome in the United States shows no association with xenotropic or polytropic murine leukemia virus-related viruses Retrovirology (Feb. 22, 2011)
• Infection, viral dissemination and antibody responses of Rhesus macaques exposed to the human gammaretrovirus XMRV Journal of Virology (Feb. 16, 2011)
• Severe Restriction of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus Replication and Spread in Cultured Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Journal of Virology (Feb. 16, 2011)
• Diagnostic markers for a virus associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or prostate cancer SciBX (Jan. 27, 2011)
• "XMRV and Blood Transfusion: Report of the AABB Interorganization Task Force," Transfusion (Jan. 14, 2011)
• No Evidence for XMRV in German CFS and MS Patients with Fatigue Despite the Ability of the Virus to Infect Human Blood Cells In Vitro, by Hohn et al., PLoS One (Dec. 22, 2010)
• The XMRV Debate Continues at 1st International Workshop, by Stoye et al., Retrovirology (Dec. 22, 2010)
• Retrovirology: list of studies on possible sources of contamination, commentary and media reports (Dec. 20, 2010)
• "Detecting Retroviral Sequences in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," by Ila Singh, MD, PhD, Viruses (Nov. 3, 2010)
• "Reply to Erlwein et al. and Martin: On detection of murine leukemia virus-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Oct. 26, 2010)
• Study Reignites Debate About Viral Agent in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome JAMA (Oct. 20, 2010)
• "XMRV Prevalence in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Chronic Immunomodulatory Conditions," Henrich et al., Journal of Infectious Diseases (Oct. 11, 2010, e-pub ahead of print)
• "Current Status of XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Prostate Cancer: Reach for a Scorecard, Not a Prescription Pad," Mary Kearney and Frank Maldarelli, Journal of Infectious Diseases (Oct. 11, 2010, e-pub ahead of print)
• IACFS/ME Biennial International Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Sept. 23, 2011)
• Written materials from the 1st International XMRV Workshop, Virology Education (posted Sept. 20, 2010)
• "Distribution of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus (XMRV) Infection in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Prostate Cancer," AIDS Reviews (Sept. 12, 2010)
• "Failure to detect xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in Chinese
  patients with chronic fatigue syndrome," Virology Journal (Sept. 2010)
• “Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Aug. 23, 2010)
  
• "Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients
  with chronic fatigue syndrome," Virulence (Sept/Oct 2010)
• "Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus: current research, disease associations and therapeutic opportunities," Future Medicine (July 2010) (subscription only)
• "Absence of evidence of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related virus infection in persons with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and healthy controls in the United States," Retrovirology (July 1, 2010)
• The human retrovirus XMRV in prostate cancer and CFS," Robert Silverman, PhD, et al., Nature Reviews Urology (June 1, 2010)
• More on XMRV and CFS in May 14 issue of Science (May 13, 2010)
• Federal CFS Advisory Committee Report (May 10, 2010)
• "Is a novel human retrovirus associated with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome?" Future Microbiology (May 7, 2010)
• "XMRV in CFS and Prostate Cancer," Current Allergy and Asthma Reports
  (April 29, 2010 )
• "Raltegravir Is a Potent Inhibitor of XMRV, a Virus Implicated in Prostate Cancer and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," PLoS ONE (April 1, 2010)
• 7 Articles about CFS in March 6, 2010 Issue of British Medical Journal
  (March 6, 2010)
• "Prevalence of XMRV in patients with CFS in the Netherlands: retrospective analysis of samples from an established cohort," British Medical Journal (Feb. 25, 2010)
• "Absence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in UK patients with chronic fatigue syndrome," Retrovirology (Feb. 15, 2010)
• "Failure to Detect the Novel Retrovirus XMRV in CFS," PLoS ONE (Jan. 6, 2010)
• "Detection of an infectious Retrovirus XMRV," Science (Oct. 8, 2009)

Other studies of interest

• Benefit from B-Lymphocyte Depletion Using the Anti-CD20 Antibody Rituximab in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A Double-Blind and Placebo-Controlled Study, Plos ONE (Oct. 19, 2011)
• The retrovirus XMRV is not directly involved in the pathogenesis of common types of lymphoid malignancy, Cancer Biomarkers, Epidemiology & Prevention (Aug. 22, 2011)
• Prevalence of XMRV nucleic acid and antibody in HIV-1 infected men and in men at risk for HIV-1 infection, Advances in Virology (Aug. 22, 2011)
• Absence of XMRV in blood donors in China, Transfusion (Aug. 19, 2011)
• DNA extraction columns contaminated with murine sequences, PLoS ONE
  (Aug. 18, 2011)
• Identification of replication competent murine gammaretroviruses in commonly used prostate cancer cell lines, PLoS One (June 17, 2011)
• XMRV in patients with systemic lupus erythematosis, Journal of Clinical Immunology (Apr. 22, 2011)
• No Evidence of XMRV in Prostate Cancer Cohorts in the Midwestern United States, Retrovirology, (March 29, 2011)
• Safety of Solid-Organ Transplantation From Donors With CFS, Transplantation (March 26, 2011)
• Absence of detectable xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus in plasma or peripheral blood mononuclear cells of human immunodeficiency virus Type 1-infected blood donors or individuals in Africa, Transfusion (March 2011)
• NF-kappa B activation stimulates transcription and replication of retrovirus XMRV in human B-lineage and prostate carcinoma cells, Journal of Virology, April 2011
• Abstracts from presentations at American Urological Association meeting published in the April 2011 issue of the Journal of Urology:
  http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)01618-1/fulltext
  http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)01208-0/fulltext
  http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)00620-3/fulltext
• Analysis of XMRV integration sites from human prostate cancer tissues suggests PCR contamination rather than genuine human infection, Retrovirology (Feb. 25, 2011)
• Lack of Infection with XMRV or Other MLV-Related Viruses in Blood, Post-Mortem Brains and Paternal Gametes of Autistic Individuals PLoS One (Feb. 23, 2011)
• "No Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus–related Virus Detected in Fibromyalgia Patients," Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb. 2011)
• No difference in antibody titers against xenotropic MLV related virus in prostate cancer cases and cancer-free controls, Mol Cell Probes (Jan. 31, 2011)
• "Of mice and men, on the origin of XMRV," by AC Van der kuyl et al, Frontiers in Virology (Dec. 26, 2010)
• "PCR and serology find no association between xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and autism," Molecular Autism (Oct. 14, 2010)
• "Biology and pathophysiology of the new human retrovirus XMRV and its association with human disease," Immunology Research (Aug. 18, 2010)
• "Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus–related Gammaretrovirus in Respiratory Tract," Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal (May 18, 2010)
• “Susceptibility of XMRV to retroviral restriction factors,” PNAS (Mar. 1, 2010)
• “XMRV establishes an efficient spreading infection and exhibits enhanced transcriptional activity in prostate carcinoma cells,” Journal of Virology (Mar. 2010)