Stealth virus detection in the chronic fatigue syndrome

Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving virus or bacteriophage

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ABSTRACT:
A method of detecting a stealth virus is provided by culturing a sample under conditions in which any stealth virus in the sample is able to induce a cytopathic effect. A method for culturing a virus is also provided by (a) cocentrifuging a sample of the virus with a permissive cell line of indicator cells; (b) inoculating the cell mixture into culture vessels; (c) adding viral enhancing medium to the culture; and (d) detecting in vitro a cytopathic effect in the permissive cell line.

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