Madeley Charles Richard
Burnfoot, Stocksfield, Northumberland NE43 7TN, UK.
J Clin Virol. 2008 Sep;43(1):9-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2008.05.002. Epub 2008 Jun 20.
Confirmation that a virus is genuinely the cause of a disease is unexpectedly difficult, especially with new molecular approaches to diagnosis. This paper discusses the problems, which are closely related to the methods used to detect virus (or components of virus), and suggests that longitudinal studies are essential to confirming causation and avoiding unwarranted assumptions.
证实一种病毒确实是某种疾病的病因出人意料地困难，尤其是采用新的分子诊断方法时。本文讨论了与检测病毒（或病毒成分）的方法密切相关的问题，并指出纵向研究对于确认因果关系和避免无端假设至关重要。
