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Posted by Sojourner (Member # 9424) on :
 
Multiple sclerosis vs Lyme disease: a case presentation to a discussant and a review of the literature.

Karussis D, Weiner HL, Abramsky O.
Department of Neurology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Medical Center, Ein-Karem, Jerusalem, Israel. 1999

I am looking for the whole paper and can only find the first page.

Does anyone have it???? If anyone does and could share it I'd give you a ahead of time!!
 

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Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
 
soj, have you tried looking at treepatrol's wonderful, helpful archive?? i bet you can find it there.
 

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Posted by Sojourner (Member # 9424) on :
 
Thanks Betty! Lots of great stuff there but I can't find reference to the specific paper I'm looking for. Even checked the great Lymeinfonet site.

Thanks to you, though, I did revisit the Gabriel Steiner work on the MS spirochete that he (and others) found way back in the 1950's and published on. Anyone with MS really ought to read this.

Good thing we didn't listen to him because today, in 2009, MS is so easily treatable..................disgusting!
 

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Posted by Sojourner (Member # 9424) on :
 
Got the paper thanks to Vermont_Lymie!!!!

Lymenet rocks! I ask and it is given. What more could anyone ask for!!
So as promised---here's a little thank you!

 

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Posted by Cheryl (Member # 75) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sojourner:
the great Lymeinfonet site.

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That gets you a {{{BEAR HUG}}}
 

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Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
 
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May I please get a copy, too? Is there a link?

I collect such things.

thanks.

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Posted by Cold Feet (Member # 9882) on :
 
Here's a related article (abstract)...


Lyme borreliosis and multiple sclerosis are associated with primary effusion lymphoma

Tanja Batinaca, Duska Petranovicb, Gordana Zamoloc, , , Davor Petranovicd and Alen Ruzice

aDepartment of Dermatovenerology, Rijeka University Hospital, Kresimirova 42, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

bDepartment of Haematology, Rijeka University Hospital, Kresimirova 42, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

cDepartment of Pathology, Rijeka University School of Medicine, Brace Branchetta 20, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

dDepartment of Radiology, Rijeka University Hospital, Kresimirova 42, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

eDepartment of Internal medicine, Thalassotherapy Hospital, M. Tita 188, 51410 Opatija, Croatia

Received 6 November 2006; accepted 7 November 2006. Available online 2 January 2007.

Summary

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system characterized by chronic inflammation and demyelination. Studies suggested that the viral, especially Epstein-Barr virus infection, and bacterial infections, especially Borrelia burgodorferi infection, play a role in etiology of MS. MS prevalence parallels the distribution of the Lyme disease pathogen B. burgdorferi.

Criteria used for diagnosis of MS can also be fulfilled in other conditions such as Lyme disease, a multisystem disorder resulting from infection by the tick-borne spirochete, B. burgdorferi. In the late period of Lyme disease demyelinating involvement of central nervous system can develop and MS can be erroneously diagnosed. A Lyme borreliosis can mimick central nervous system lymphoma. Also, B. burgdorferi has been implicated not only in etiology of MS, but also in etiology of lymphoma.

Studies suggested that there is an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in patients, who had a history of autoimmune diseases such as MS and that both non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and Hodgkin's disease were associated with Epstein-Barr virus infection.

A small group of lymphomas called primary effusion lymphomas (PEL) is a recently individualized form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (WHO classification) that exhibit exclusive or dominant involvement of serous cavities, without a detectable solid tumor mass. These lymphomas have also been linked to Epstein-Barr virus and human herpes virus type 8 infections but virus negative cases have been described.

Therefore, we propose that MS and neuroborreliosis are linked to central nervous system primary effusion lymphomas.

As a first step in confirming or refuting our hypotheses, we suggest a thorough study of CSF in the patients suspected for the diagnosis of MS and Lyme borreliosis.

Article Outline
Introduction
Hypotheses
Discussion
References
 

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