Prevalence of #EBV, #HHV6, #HCMV, #HAdV, #SARS-CoV-2, and #Autoantibodies to Type I #Interferon in #Sputum from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / #CFS Patients, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/03/prevalence-of-ebv-hhv6-hcmv-hadv-sars.html

https://www.mdedge.com/neurology/article/272041/alzheimers-cognition/common-gut-infection-tied-alzheimers-disease #medicine #hcmv #alzheimers

"The team hypothesised that some of the T cells specific to SARS-CoV-2 had been activated by a herpesvirus called human #cytomegalovirus (HCMV). This pathogen is highly prevalent in the population and has also been linked to changes in the severity of #COVID19 symptoms (Alanio et al., 2022). To investigate, they stimulated pre-pandemic blood samples with different segments of SARS-CoV-2 proteins. This led them to discover a population of ‘cross-reactive’ CD4 and CD8 T cells that can recognize epitopes from both #SARSCoV2 and #HCMV"

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