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• The diverse biofilms of the Borrelia species
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• Important New Website
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• New Case Study—Morgellons disease, illuminating an undefined illness.
• Some Research Findings
• Oral Spirochetes
• Infectious Causes of Disease: An Evolutionary Perspective
• Morgellons – A Response from Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D.
• Dermatophilosis - Tick Borne
• GM Trees, Paper, Our Health
• Scleroderma
• Images - Borrelia and Spirochaete Biofilms
• L - Form Bacteria
• 3D Imaging of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Adhering to and Escaping from the Vasculature of a Living Host
• Morgellons - A Short film from Silentsuperbug
• Morgellons Phase I study - Primary Organisms Of Interest
• Phase 1: Recovery of Morgellons-Related Particles from Water Samples
• Trichophyton eboreum sp. nov. Isolated from Human Skin
• Morgellons: Growth Captured
• Lifestyle and Genome evolution in vector borne Bacteria
• Ochrobactrum anthropi pseudobacteraemias
• Ochrobactrum was found to be closely related to Brucella
• Ochrobactrum spp. are human opportunist pathogens
• The genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis Ames and comparison to closely related bacteria
• Glowing Insect Bug - Harms Humans
• Nematode Symbiont for Photorhabdus asymbiotica
• Bacillus cereus can cause local skin and wound infections
• Outbreak of Cutaneous Bacillus Cereus Infections
• Bacillus Cereus
• Alcohols in skin disinfectants increase biofilm expression of S.epidermidis
• Cercarial Dermatitis
• Bacillus Subtilis Macrofibers
• The pathogenisis and treatment of mycoplasma infections
• Capnine - Bio-Film’s Dirty Little Secret
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• Understanding L-form Bacteria
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Actinomycosis is a chronic bacterial disease. Localized swelling with suppuration, abscess formation, tissue fibrosis, and draining sinuses characterize this disease. Gram-positive, pleomorphic non–spore-forming, non–acid-fast anaerobic or microaerophilic bacilli of the genus Actinomyces and the order Actinomycetales cause actinomycosis. Actinomyces are very closely related to Nocardia species, and, at one point in time, both were considered to be fungal organisms.

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Doctor who fought for his beliefs pays a high price..

Dr Jemsek’s practice was closed down. For clinically diagnosing Lyme Borreliosis it would appear.

I heard Dr Jemsek speak at the UK Lyme Disease Conference at Sheffield University in 2005.
I thought his treatment ideas and philosophy inspirational. He recieved a standing ovation.
I am shocked to see this and I wish him well.

Goal :
To develop fabrics that contain micro-fabricated bio-environments and biologically activated fibers. These fabrics will have genetically engineered bacteria or mammalian cells incorporated into them, that will enable them to generate and replenish chemical coatings and chemically active components.
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Degeneration of the elastica and collagen fibres in skin biopsies from patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans was studied with light and electron microscopy.
Elastic fibres were involved in the infiltrative stage while the elastin plexus was still present.
In the atrophic phase, only fragments of elastic and oxytalan fibres were seen and the elaunin plexus was absent. Some collagen fibres were surrounded by osmiophilic material.
In all biopsies, myelin sheaths were collapsed without axon structures.
Spirochetes could be demonstrated in 69% of the biopsies and were most numerous in infiltrative and nodular lesions.
The loss of elasticity of the skin in the atrophic phase may be caused by the destruction of both elastic and elastin fibres.

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Morgellons: Nano-911 A Foreign Invader
by Dr. Hildegarde Staninger

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“It is called Morgellons: A Nano-911 Foreign Invader. It has many names - fiber disease, mystery disease, delusional parasitosis and unknown dermatological skin disorder . . . .It is silent, smart, glistening . . . . . patterned after nature’s many wonders, but it is still one hundred percent man made. The nano-brew has been loosed from its scientific flask casting its woes upon an unsuspecting innocence.”

Israel has declared an outbreak of West Nile fever an epidemic following the death of 13 people in recent weeks.

BBC News

BioFilms

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FIG. 6. (A) Cut section of a urinary catheter collected from a patient, revealing a worm-like structure occluding the lumen; (B) low-power scanning electron micrograph of a freeze-fractured cross-section of a blocked catheter; (C) crystalline formations on the outer surface of a freeze-dried preparation of material blocking the catheter; (D) fixed and critical-point-dried specimen showing that, below their crystalline coats, the catheter casts are composed of a mass of cocci and bacilli. Reprinted from reference 190 with permission of the publisher (W. B. Saunders).

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Wolbachia is a genus of inherited bacterium which infects arthropod species, including a high proportion of all insects.
It is one of the world’s most common parasitic microbes and is potentially the most common reproductive parasite in the biosphere…

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The finding of nearly the complete genome of Wolbachia inside the genome of Drosophila ananassae.

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Wolbachia Endosymbionts: An Achilles Heel of Filarial Nematodes.

Hoerauf A, Pfarr K

Hoerauf A, Rao RU (eds): Wolbachia. Issues Infect Dis. Basel, Karger, 2007, vol 5, pp 31-51 (DOI: 10.1159/000104231)

Abstract:
Filarial worm infections of humans cause morbidity and even death in developing countries of the tropics.
Current antifilarial drug therapies target only the first-stage larvae, requiring many years of annual/biannual treatment.
Another problem with controlling filarial infections is the lack of any alternative drugs that can be used in the current mass drug administration programs should resistance develop.
Wolbachia, endosymbiotic bacteria that are found in most of the human filarial worms are excellent targets for the discovery of new antifilarial drugs because of their requirement for worm embryogenesis, development and adult survival.
Targeting of Wolbachia with antirickettsial drugs has lead to the recommendation of doxycycline for use on an individual basis and may be recommended in areas where resistance to current drugs may develop. More evidence that eliminating the endobacteria reduces adverse reactions to current drug therapies and even reduces early stages of pathology is also accruing.

Thus, research is underway to discover new drugs, preferably those already approved for use in humans, that have anti wolbachial activity and work in a shorter time and which can be given to all members of the population.

Minocycline is more effective.

With their flying and echolocation abilities, bats are extraordinary creatures. Remarkably, they account for fully one-quarter of all mammalian species. Unfortunately, they have also recently been fingered as the hosts of two deadly human pathogens – the SARS and Ebola viruses.

The SARS virus is thought to have crossed a species barrier from its natural host, causing potentially deadly disease in people. It was originally thought to have come from masked palm civits, but it appears that the civit was just an intermediary between bats, the natural host, and humans. Sequence comparisons of the virus from humans and the Chinese horseshoe bat strongly suggest that the bat virus was the source of the human infection.

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The first-ever case of Bluetongue disease in Britain has been found in a cow near Ipswich, Suffolk.

BBC News

The public is being warned to take precautions against ticks as the wet and mild summer has caused a peak in numbers of the blood-sucking parasite.

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Bat bugs are blood-sucking insects of the family Cimicidae that are closely related to the bedbug. They are so-named because they feed primarily on the blood of bats, although they will bite humans if necessary.

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Bats in the belfry, bugs in the bed?
AS Whyte, PA Garnett, AE Whittington
The Lancet - Vol. 357, Issue 9256, 24 February 2001, Page 604
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Bed bugs are on the increase globally. Here is an image of the Bed bug.

However, I am wondering and thinking, through a dissipating fog of course ….”What is the “Fibre” in the foreground of the image engaging in an apprent tete a tete with this odious orange arthropod ?”

The contribution of Agrobacterium to Morgellons Disease

RB Stricker, VR Savely, A Zaltsman, V Citovsky.

California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; International Lyme & Associated Diseases Society, Bethesda, MD;

State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY.

Background:

Morgellons disease is characterized by dysesthesias and dermatologic lesions that range from minor to disfiguring (Savely VR, Leitao MM, Stricker RB. Am J Clin Dermatol 2006;7:1-5). The disease has been reported primarily in Florida, Texas and California. Although an infectious etiology of Morgellons disease has been postulated, treatment of the disease remains problematic, with many patients having inadequateresponses to antimicrobial therapy. Skin biopsies of Morgellons patients reveal non-specific pathology or an
inflammatory process with no observable pathogens, often with fibrous material projecting from inflamed epidermal tissue. Morgellons skin fibers appear to contain cellulose. This observation indicates possible involvement of pathogenic Agrobacterium, which is known to produce cellulose fibers at infection sites within host tissues.
Methods: Skin biopsy samples from two Morgellons patients were subjected to high-stringency PCR testing for genes encoded by the Agrobacterium chromosome. Screening of the same samples for Agrobacterium virulence (vir) genes and T-DNA sequences in the patient’s genome was also performed.

Results:

PCR screening indicated the presence of Agrobacterium genes derived both from the chromosome and from the Ti plasmid, including the T-DNA, in tissues from both Morgellons patients.

Conclusions:

Our preliminary results indicate that Agrobacterium may be involved in the etiology and/or progression of Morgellons disease. If these results are confirmed, it would be the first example of a plant-infecting bacterium playing a role in human disease. Further testing is ongoing to validate this observation and to determine whether Agrobacterium not only resides in the infected areas, but also transforms them genetically.

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Bartonella henselae infects both cats and humans. The bacteria are transmitted among cats by the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis and to humans by cat scratches or cat bites. Infections produce no clinical symptoms in cats whereas cat-scratch disease in humans causes manifestations in the liver, the skin, the lymphatic organs, and the nervous and cardiovascular systems.

The complete genomes for Bartonella quintana (1,581,384 bp) and Bartonella henselae (1,931,047 bp) have been sequenced and comparative studies conducted.

The two pathogens maintain several similarities in being transmitted by insect vectors, using mammalian reservoirs, infecting similar cell types (endothelial cells and erythrocytes) and causing vasculoproliferative changes in immunocompromised hosts.

A primary difference between the two pathogens is their reservoir ecology. Whereas B. quintana is a specialist, using only the human as a reservoir, B. henselae is more promiscuous and is frequently isolated from both cats and humans.

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Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) is a useful model system for studying genes associated with disease in humans.

Researchers have found that the underlying biochemistry of fruit flies and humans is remarkably similar, therefore fruit flies can provide clues to understanding human diseases caused by defective genes.
Human tumor-suppressing genes can be seen in flies easier than in mouse data pointing out that experiments can be done using fly genes that would be impractical (or unthinkable) using human subjects.
Especially useful is the identification of networks of other genes that interact with known disease genes, and their associated metabolic pathways.
The implications for medicine are immediate.
A recent transgenic fly, for example, is proving invaluable in the study of the pathology of the complex human disease, Parkinson’s disease. To this end researchers are continuing to refine the D. melanogaster sequence already produced.

Chlamydophila pneumoniae causes pneumonia and bronchitis in humans

The genus Chlamydia includes 3 species that are pathogenic to humans: Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Chlamydia psittaci, and Chlamydia trachomatis. Chlamydophila pneumoniae is an obligately intracellular Gram-negative bacterium.

Bacillus thuringiensis is a pathogenic bacteria used for insect control.

B. thuringiensis are Gram-positive spore-forming, rod-shaped aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus.

B. thuringiensis is an insecticidal bacterium, marketed worldwide for control of many important plant pests - mainly caterpillars of the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), but also mosquito larvae, and simuliid blackflies that vector river blindness in Africa.

B. thuringiensis products represent about 1% of the total ‘agrochemical’ market (fungicides, herbicides and insecticides) across the world. The commercial B. thuringiensis products are powders containing a mixture of dried spores and toxin crystals. They are applied to leaves or other environments where the insect larvae feed. The toxin genes have also been genetically engineered into several crop plants……

Published by the Daily Mail here in the UK.

The Spirochete is Pleomorphic.

“Under stressful conditions, the treponeme ‘packs’ itself into a compact roll and becomes covered with a transparent mucoid capsule, which resists the penetration of drugs and antibodies. The organisms may persist in this form for a prolonged period without any reaction from the host. The encysted treponemes and the host coexist more or less peacefully, but under propitious circumstances the cysts may be transformed again into the usual spiral, which damages the cells of the host and elicits a response.”
—Ovcinnikov NM; Delectorsku VV. 1971.

How the Borrelia bacteria reacts to adverse conditions in the host.

You Tube Interview with Joseph Burrascano MD
WVVH Hamptons TV (Long Island, New York) has created a one-hour program “Lyme Disease: Medical Nightmare” that is viewable online on YouTube.

Dr. Burrascano and other leaders in the U.S. Lyme community are interviewed.

It would be helpful if people can send thank you’s to the reporter, producer and station, as well as to Ed Romaine, the Suffolk County NY legislator who sponsored the Aug 30 Town Hall Meeting on Lyme Disease where this show was filmed. Our thanks could inspire them to put more on YouTube.

Please thank Ernie Schimizzi (Producer) and Karl Grossman (Reporter):
NEWSDESK@WVVH.COM

To the Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

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The recent editorial by Dr Koblenzer, titled “The Challenge of Morgellons Disease,” appears with two referenced letters.

All authors imply that the term “Morgellons” and the related Morgellons Research Foundation are unwelcome imposters appearing on immutable turf.

No author suggests awareness of either the Morgellons origin or the origin of delusions of parasitosis (DP) nor the assumptions and facts underpinning each.

The first approach we considered in responding to the editorial and letters was to address individual points raised by each.

Repeated perusal suggested another more relevant approach.

Each author provided abundant examples of an expansive medical system constrained by legal and fiscal (insurance) pressures that have resulted in the production of certified practitioners with little awareness of the necessary tools of critical thinking.

The result of each is a hollow argument addressing a perceived issue without reference to the genesis, history, or information sources of either DP or Morgellons.

Coenzyme-Q10 has many benefits.

From experience, it will help with ANY gum and mouth problems, and will, with perseverence, eradicate Gingivitis.

Another essential enzyme.

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Rechtsregulat:

“Mycoplasma responds well to enzymes, when it is treated in sequence with the other microbes as outlined here. The most effective strategy is the German product Rechtsregulat. This simple drink has been extremely effective in eradicating mycoplasma and other cell wall deficient microbes. It also has a heparin like anti-fibrin effect that surpasses injected heparin by far. It has, just like heparin, a strong biological effect against Babesia as well. ”

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Possibly caused by the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus.

Which might be a parasite of the Verroa Mite.

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The scientists sequenced all the different DNA types found in the affected and unaffected hives.
By a process of elimination, they were able to identify Israeli acute paralysis virus as the most likely culprit. It was found in more than 96 per cent of affected colonies but in almost none of the unaffected hives.

New Images

In our pillows, killing insects…and in our environment.
Could this be too close for comfort ?
In this picture Drosophila killed by Aspergillus Fumigatus.
Drosophila is the little black fly that has been “bugging” me for a few years now. How about you ?
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Researchers at The University of Manchester funded by the Fungal Research Trust have discovered millions of fungal spores right under our noses - in our pillows.

There is……a ‘miniature ecosystem’ at work inside our pillows………..”

Each pillow was found to contain a substantial fungal load, with four to 16 different species being identified per sample and even higher numbers found in synthetic pillows.

The microscopic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus was particularly evident in synthetic pillows, and fungi as diverse as bread and vine moulds and those usually found on damp walls and in showers were also found.

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Adding Aspergillus oryzaeto to some foods, particularly fried foods prevents Cancer……

Oh Really ?

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TEACHER’S TICK BITE WARNING

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This is an image showing a Fusarium infection with strong similarities to Morgellons skin tracking.

View my lesions and tracking here :

Using Magnesium to combat Borreliosis.

A Garth Nickolson paper from the Institute of Molecular Medicine published in the Infectious Disease Newsletter 2007.
From Here :
“We and others have concluded that the most common co-infection found with Borrelia are the various species of Micoplasma….”

Links

• Alliance for Natural Health
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