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

ItCantBeTrue
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Member # 17151

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

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SoSublyme
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 15185

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

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Melanie Reber
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 3707

posted

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

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