LymeNet Flash: Lyme is congenital. Are co-infections, too?

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Posted by ItCantBeTrue (Member # 17151) on :

Anyone know if bart, babs, myco and all the rest of the gang can be passed from mom to fetus in utero?

Posted by not so sublime lyme (Member # 15185) on :

I don't know, but my personal experience was that I passed lyme only to one of my children, not my 2 co-infections.

Posted by Melanie Reber (Member # 3707) on :

Yes...

Congenital means is known to be a transmission mode for:

Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA)
Babesiosis
Bartonella
Brucellosis
Lyme disease
Mycoplasma
Query Fever
Relapsing Fever

To see citations for each, please see:
http://lymememorial.org/Transmission.htm