What is the role of GRV (previously called XMRV) in chronic lyme – Can chronic lyme exist without GRV?

pcheney — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:30:09 +0000

Many Lyme Literate MD’s (LLMD’s) argue that chronic borrelia infection, otherwise known as Chronic Lyme Disease (CLD), may be curable with simple antibiotics in many patients, require extensive antibiotics for long periods in some patients and fail to respond at

XMRV and other associated conditions including FM, MCS and Lyme

pcheney — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:16:44 +0000

As for overlap conditions in Dr. Mikovits' cohort associated with CFS including FM and MCS and chronic Lyme and MS-like patients, I cannot speak to that. However, my clinic is filled with such overlap conditions. I suspect it will not matter very much. They are most likely infected with XMRV if they meet criteria for CFS with or without FM or MCS or chronic Lyme. Perhaps pure FM or pure MCS or pure Lyme will be different in degree of infection and maybe not. It will be very interesting to watch this data develop and expand to CFS-like conditions and the few pure FM and MCS cases that I have seen over the years. I have not really seen what I would call a pure Lyme case but many with CFS and a positive Igenex WB assay and antibiotic failure for chronic Lyme.

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What is the role of GRV (previously called XMRV) in chronic lyme – Can chronic lyme exist without GRV?

XMRV and other associated conditions including FM, MCS and Lyme