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25

Scleroderma

February 25, 2009 | Comments Off

From Here :
………. At the time my dermatology professor was J. Walter Wilson, who was also a world famous mycologist, an expert in fungal diseases. He was somewhat skeptical about my findings of acid-fast bacteria in all these four patients and he suggested I use a scleroderma patient as a “control.” Scleroderma is a so-called “collagen disease” where the skin becomes hardened. The disease can affect the internal organs and is sometimes fatal. The cause is unknown, and bacteria were never thought to cause this disease. Dr. Wilson said I should check a scleroderma skin biopsy because that would serve as a negative “control” case. I was astonished when Eugenia Craggs called me from the TB lab and told me the skin tissue grindings of the scleroderma sample were positive for acid-fast bacteria, the kind of bacteria found in tuberculosis. She would try and grow the germ in a TB culture. After much searching I was also able to find a few acid-fast rod forms of bacteria in the scleroderma skin biopsy microscopic sections prepared by the pathologist.

The scleroderma bacterial took a long time to grow and could not be diagnosed as a TB germ or other definite “atypical” mycobacteria.
The microbe was highly pleomorphic (various forms). There were round staphylococccal forms, as well as typical acid-fast rod forms. Eventually this isolate became fungal-like and “actinomycete- like.” Despite expert opinion, it was impossible to classify the microbe into a specific species.

This case of scleroderma was reported in The Archives of Dermatology in 1966.

Feb

7

Images - Borrelia and Spirochaete Biofilms

February 7, 2009 | Comments Off

The majority of bacteria exist in nature attached to a substratum.

Please follow this link to an extraordinary pdf file with images of Borrelia and other Spirochaetal Biofilms, which is titled “Biofilms of Borrelia Burgdorferi and clinical implications for chronic Borreliosis” by Alan Macdonald MD and dated July 7 2008 from the University of New Haven, Lyme Disease Symposium, New Haven Connecticut

and this link to many more images which may be interesting for Alzheimer’s sufferers in adddition to Lyme Borreliosis patients.

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