Comparable Immune Alterations and Inflammatory Signatures in ME/CFS and Long COVID
Steliyan Petrov, Martina Bozhkova, Mariya Ivanovska, Teodora Kalfova, Dobrina Dudova, Ralitsa Nikolova, Katya Vaseva, Yana Todorova, Milena Aleksova, Maria Nikolova, Hristo Taskov, Marianna Murdjeva, Michael Maes, Toshihiro Kita · 2025
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Steliyan Petrov and co-authors published a study in 2025 comparing the immune systems of people with chronic fatigue syndrome and people with long COVID. The two conditions share crushing fatigue, pain, and mental fog, and both seem to involve a stuck immune response. The team asked how deep that resemblance runs in blood tests.
They studied 190 people: sixty-five with chronic fatigue, fifty-four with long COVID, and seventy healthy controls. Both patient groups showed fewer key immune cells of several kinds than controls. Both also carried higher levels of inflammatory signals. Mood and thinking measures were gathered alongside. The shared pattern supports studying the two conditions side by side when hunting for treatments.
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| CREATOR | Steliyan Petrov, Martina Bozhkova, Mariya Ivanovska, Teodora Kalfova, Dobrina Dudova, Ralitsa Nikolova, Katya Vaseva, Yana Todorova, Milena Aleksova, Maria Nikolova, Hristo Taskov, Marianna Murdjeva, Michael Maes, Toshihiro Kita |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |