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The lab who have been working very hard on trying to PCR my specimen, and having a heck of a time, finally have a reading! They are sequencing it now.

I have instructed them on a few things, and they were not going to give up, because they knew how important this was. I have no idea how much free labour they gave me, but God bless their souls!

They obtained an amplification from rRNA, and primers from microsporidium.
So, I had already assumed it was this, but they might be able to find something precise.

This will be very helpful information for all of us. Microw [woohoo]

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Yay! is this any of the labs we have heard of in the US?
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microw,

guess i'm in lyme fog now; not understanding this one at all; can someone write this briefly in user-friendly LYME language? thx [Smile]

otherwise, CONGRAT MICROW! [Smile] hug
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okie dokie! How long do you expect this to take?

You
Fry
Clongen

Maybe we will get an answer soon? Thanks for all of your effort and determination.

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Sorry for being confusing. The microbe in question is a very small parasite that is extremely difficult to find.
They have to use DNA techniques, but the bug has missing DNA in the part they normally check.

Plus, the part of the bug that causes the most problems, is in a hard little shell, which also hides normal DNA.

It would be a miracle to find this in normal testing.

These things present the same problems as cysts from spirochetes.
Therefore, the disease is similar.

Another issue is, the bugs are closely related to fungi, and could spin-off fungal co-infections.

And for icing on the cake, I suspect it may cause elevations of mycoplasmas. Microw

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I should know by the end of this week.

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The Lab is EMSL

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