Absence of detectable XMRV and other MLV-related viruses in healthy blood donors in the United States |
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Authors: | Tang Shixing Zhao Jiangqin Haleyur Giri Setty Mohan Kumar Devadas Krishnakumar Gaddam Durga Viswanath Ragupathy Wood Owen Zhang Panhe Hewlett Indira K |
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Affiliation: | Lab of Molecular Virology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America. tangshixing@hotmail.com |
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Abstract: | BackgroundPreliminary studies in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients and XMRV infected animals demonstrated plasma viremia and infection of blood cells with XMRV, indicating the potential risk for transfusion transmission. XMRV and MLV-related virus gene sequences have also been detected in 4–6% of healthy individuals including blood donors in the U.S. These results imply that millions of persons in the U.S. may be carrying the nucleic acid sequences of XMRV and/or MLV-related viruses, which is a serious public health and blood safety concern.Methodology/Principal FindingsTo gain evidence of XMRV or MLV-related virus infection in the U.S. blood donors, 110 plasma samples and 71 PBMC samples from blood donors at the NIH blood bank were screened for XMRV and MLV-related virus infection. We employed highly sensitive assays, including nested PCR and real-time PCR, as well as co-culture of plasma with highly sensitive indicator DERSE cells. Using these assays, none of the samples were positive for XMRV or MLV-related virus.Conclusions/SignificanceOur results are consistent with those from several other studies, and demonstrate the absence of XMRV or MLV-related viruses in the U.S. blood donors that we studied. |
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