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Question for August 01, 2003:

Question: NAME THE VIRUS!

The specimen is a peripheral blood sample for a young woman who was recently hospitalized (briefly) for a sore throat with associated difficulty breathing and extreme fatigue.  She recovered and is now fine.  The PBMCs were isolated using a FICOLL gradient, the buffy coat fixed in formalin, and the cells subjected to RTISPCR for a variety of viruses.


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