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Old Thu Sep 11, 2008, 03:50 PM
Neil Cuadra Neil Cuadra is offline
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It's an interesting study.

Rather than look for evidence that a particular virus is the cause of a particular disease, they are looking for evidence of any virus in patients with any idiopathic disease (an illness whose cause is not known).

Finding a virus won't show that it's cause of the disease in that patient, but if they find the same virus in a number of patients with the same disease, that would make it worth studying as a possible cause.
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