Journal of IiME Volume 3 Issue 1 www.investinme.org P PRROOFFIILLEESS ooff PPRREESSEENNTTEERRSS aatt tthhee IINNVVEESSTT iinn MMEE I INNTTEERRNNAATTIIOONNAALL MMEE//CCFFSS CCOONNFFEERREENNCCEE 8. Hanevik K, Hausken T, Morken M, Strand E, Morch K, Coll P, Helgeland L, Langeland N. Persisting symptoms and duodenal inflammation related to Giardia duodenalis infection. J Infect, 2007 Dec;55(6):524-30. 9. Morch K, Hanevik K, Rortveit G, Wensaas KA, Langeland N. High rate of fatigue and abdominal symptoms 2 years after an outbreak of giardiasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 2009 Jan 29. Epub head of print. doi:10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.01.010 10. Fukuda K, Straus SE, Hickie I, Sharpe MC, Dobbins JG, Komaroff A. The chronic fatigue syndrome: a comprehensive approach to its definition and study. International Chronic Fatigue Study Group. Ann Intern Med, 1994;121:953-959. 11. Nyland H, Nyland M, Stormorken E, Naess H. Post-infectious fatigue syndrome following Giardia infection. An ongoing multidisciplinary follow-up. Poster presentation. The 9th Biennial International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Conference, Reno, Nevada, March 14, 2009. Addditional examples of papers by Professor Nyland: - Vaccination as teenagers against meningococcal disease and the risk of the chronic fatigue syndrome. Magnus P, Brubakk O, Nyland H, Wold BH, Gjessing HK, Brandt I, Eidem T, Nøkleby H, Stene-Larsen G. Vaccine. 2009 Jan 1;27(1):23-7. Epub 2008 Nov 5. PMID: 18984023 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Vitamin D-dependent rickets as a possible risk factor for multiplesclerosis. Torkildsen Ø, Knappskog PM, Nyland HI, Myhr KM. Arch Neurol. 2008 Jun;65(6):809-11. PMID: 18541802 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] D Drr .. JJoonnaatthhaann KKeerr rr Jonathan Kerr was born in Belfast in 1963, qualified in medicine from Queen’s University of Belfast (1987), and completed training as a medical microbiologist (1995). He has worked as a microbiologist in Belfast, Manchester and London, taking up post as a Consultant Senior Lecturer in Microbiology at Royal Brompton Hospital / Imperial College in June 2001, and then Sir Joseph Hotung Clinical Senior Lecturer in Inflammation at St George’s University of London in 2005. His interest in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) began during a study of the consequences of parvovirus B19 infection, when he showed that a percentage of infected cases developed CFS which persisted for several years. He is now the principal investigator in a programme of research in CFS. This involves development of a diagnostic test using mass spectrometry, analysis of human and viral gene expression in the white blood cells, and clinical trials of immunomodulatory drugs. Dr. Jonathan Kerr and colleagues at St. George’s University of London reported in the July 27, 2005 issue of the Journal of Clinical Pathology that a preliminary study of 25 CFS patients and 25 matched healthy controls revealed abnormalities in 35 of 9,522 genes analyzed using microarray technology. Polymerase chain reaction studies showed the same results for 16 of these genes. Dr. Kerr has recently defined seven genomic subtypes of CFS based on 88 genes that are expressed differently in CFS patients than they are in normal controls. Invest in ME (Charity Nr. 1114035) Page 65/76
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