UAlberta researchers wind up a 40-year-old debate on betaretrovirus infection in humans

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Research from the University of Alberta is shedding new light on primary biliary cirrhosis, a rare liver disease that affects up to one in 500 middle-aged women. In a study published in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Andrew Mason, a professor of medicine in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, proves that patients with the disease are infected with human betaretrovirus -- a virus resembling a mouse mammary tumor virus.
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