I am preparing a presentation to a Chronic Fatigue group, and have not
been able to find a medical abstract that I read recently.

It was a double blind study of a large number of CFIDS patients who
were given a Lyme lab test (dont know which test).  The study found a
HIGH percentage of the CFIDS patients testing positive for Lyme.

If anyone reading this can tell me where to find the article, I will
greatly appreciate it.

Colby Van Atta

Mention of that study was made on page34 of Coping with Lyme Disease by Denise
Lang. I glanced through the bibliography and didn't recognize the reference
article but you may have better luck. Hope you find what you're looking for.
Linda

Sorry - please ignore my first posting on this subject. I think the study
you're looking for is:

Annals of Neurology: Exerpt from "Borrelia burgdorferi Infection in the Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome" by Patricia K. Coyle and Lauren Krupp, 1990, 28:243-44,
reprinted with permission from Annals of Neurology.

Hope that helps. Linda.

I saw the previous answer to this post but if I am not mistaken there has been
a study released in the last month or so with this information.

I believe I saw it (or at least the title) on the Harvard Lyme discussion
group.  I do not have the URL for that.
G. Copeland Cole

from http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol%2D159/issue%2D5/0537.htm

Canadian Medical Association Journal

Many investigators have hypothesized that CFS is a manifestation of chronic
infection or is triggered by an acute infection with any or all of the
following pathogens: Epstein-Barr virus, human herpes virus-6 and -7,
enterovirus, coxsackievirus, parvovirus B19, Q fever, a novel retrovirus, Borna
disease virus, Brucella, Lyme disease, Candida and a newly discovered bacterium
(Mycoplasma incognitus).
Investigators have found no relationship between CFS and hepatitis B
vaccination.
A recent trial has suggested that an abnormality in an antiviral lymphocyte
enzyme system (the 2-5A pathway) may be implicated in the pathogenesis of CFS.
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