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There is a book Cure Unknown, by Pamela Weintraub, that states that there are 3 types of mycoplasma found in Lyme patients, and mycoplasma fermantans is one of them.
Lyme is also being studied (among other diseases) at a new lab in Colorado. They denied it at Plum Island near NY and CT, but are admitting it there. Hmm...
There are a few US Patents on mycoplasma. You can click there and type in the number, or type in the "Assignee" as American Registry of Patholgy." I fiddled around with it a bit.
There is US Patent No. 5215914. "Mycoplasma can Enhance HIV Replication in Vitro: A possible Cofactor Responsible for the Progression of AIDS.
US Patent No. 5,242,820 Shyh-Ching Lo Mycoplasma Fermantans-AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Alzheimers
Robert Gallo has one also, but all my pages got booted last night and I have to re-research it. I found another mycoplasma patent that wasn't fermantans but started with a "p" Ok, I had copied and pasted before I got booted. Here's what I typed:
It also states that an antigen-antibody response can be detected by ELISA, Western-blot and direct or indirect immunoflourescent assay and immuniradiometric assay as described in US Patent No. 4,520,113 (Inventor: Robert Gallo, Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the (Washington, DC)
See also US Patent No. 5,215,914, Adherent and invasive mycoplasma. [The present invention relates to a novel strain of mycoplasma isolated from a patient with AIDS. The mycoplasma does not appear to be related to any other species of human or animal mycoplasma. This novel mycoplasma is referred to hereinafter as M. penetrans.] See also Robert Gallo's book, Virus Hunting.
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It absolutely is a co-infection in Lyme Disease. Not only that, but Gulf War Vetrans from the first war, were shown to be exposed to Mycoplasma infection. When treated, they recovered.
The Vetrans returning from the current war who are sick, are showing an entirely different pattern of symptoms. This demonstrates that probability of exposure during the first war. Biological weapon....
Now I won't get into the conspiracy over what is going on here in the U.S. but it's clear that biological weapons were used on our soldiers, and that was expected.
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And agree it is a common coinfection factor with lyme.
My question is from my research the best tx for myco is long term doxy - min 9 months and up to a yr - is it the ONLY and BEST tx????
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That depends who you ask and on the strain. Tetracycline therapies seem to work well over a long period of time.
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I think the macrolides and Ketek are effective against some mycoplasmas as well -- at least against mycoplasma fermentens, which I had (and apparently do not have any more, according to my labcorp test results... if they can be believed....)
Doxy seems to work well against many of them, too -- though it isn't easy to tolerate for a lot of us.
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