This Week in Virology #76: XMRV with Professor Stephen Goff

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Stephen Goff

Vincent speaks with Stephen Goff about the origin of the retrovirus XMRV and its association with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome.

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Links for this episode:

• Discovery of XMRV in prostate tumors


• Association of XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome


• Enhanced infection of prostate cells by XMRV


• XMRV and xenotransplantation

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