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malady, but is presented as food for thought. What you read on this site is
based on my own history and ideas. This information cannot take the place of
professional medical advice. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should
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I have heard several scientists at several
conferences say there are basically at least hundreds, if not thousands, of
pathogens spread by the tick vector. Very few of these pathogens have been
isolated and identified. (My personal belief is this is why some antibiotics
work better for some patients and others work better for other patients.)
Howstuffworks How do bacteria become resistant to
antibiotics
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question561.htm
Lyme
http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic588.htm
Borrelia burgdorferi, Lyme
http://www.wadsworth.org/databank/borreli.htm
New York State Department of Health Communicable
Disease Fact Sheets, LYME
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/lyme.htm
MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia Lyme
disease
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001319.htm
When to Suspect and How to Monitor Babesiosis http://www.aafp.org/afp/20010515/1969.html
CDC's Info on Babesiosis
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Babesiosis.htm
Human Ehrlichiosis in the United States
Herpesviruses HHV-6--7
http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/3035/HHV6-7.html
MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia Tularemia
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000856.htm
SNIP>>>Powassan (POW) virus is a
flavivirus and currently the only well documented tick-borne transmitted
arbovirus occurring in the United States and Canada. Recently a Powassan-like
virus was isolated from the deer tick, Ixodes scapularis. Its relationship to
POW and its ability to cause human disease has not been fully elucidated. POW's
range in the United States is primarily in the upper tier States. In addition to
isolations from man, the virus has been recovered from ticks (Ixodes marxi, I.
cookei and Dermacentor andersoni) and from the tissues of a skunk (Spiligale
putorius). It is a rare cause of acute viral encephalitis. POW virus was first
isolated from the brain of a 5-year-old child who died in Ontario in 1958.
Patients who recover may have residual neurological problems. <<<
read more:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/arbor/arbdet.htm
Bartonella
Infections: Diverse and Elusive
Cat Scratch Fever and Bartonellosis
Edward B. Breitschwerdt, DVM, Diplomate, ACVIM
RICKETTSIA, EHRLICHIA, COXIELLA
AND BARTONELLA
http://www.med.sc.edu:85/mayer/ricketsia.htm
One species of the bacteria, Bartonella
quintana, has long been known to cause trench fever in humans, but it
has only been in the last decade or so that B. henselae was
identified as the cause of cat scratch disease. More recently, two other
species, B. washoensis and B. vinsonii subspecies berkhoffii
have been found to cause disease in humans. All four were among the
Bartonella bacteria found in the ticks.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/04/010413083109.htm
Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic590.htm
Southern Tick-Associated Rash
Illness
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/stari/index.htm
Typhus Fevers
http://www2.ncid.cdc.gov/travel/yb/utils/ybGet.asp?section=dis&obj=rickettsial.htm
Q Fever
http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic589.htm
Rickettsia General Features
The rickettsia are bacteria which are obligate intracellular parasites. They are
considered a separate group of bacteria because they have the common feature of
being spread by arthropod vectors (lice, fleas, mites and ticks). The cells are
extremely small (0.25 u in diameter) rod-shaped, coccoid and often pleomorphic
microorganisms which have typical bacterial cell walls, no flagella (except for
Rickettsia prowazekii), are gram-negative and multiply via binary fission only
inside host cells. They occur singly, in pairs, or in strands. Most species are
found only in the cytoplasm of host cells, but those which cause spotted fevers
multiply in nuclei as well as in cytoplasm. In the laboratory, they may be
cultivated in living tissues such as embryonated chicken eggs or vertebrate cell
cultures.
http://www.kcom.edu/faculty/chamberlain/Website/Lects/RICKETT.HTM#ri
Eastern Tick-Borne Rickettsioses
Mild to moderately severe febrile diseases caused by various rickettsia
transmitted by ixodid ticks and characterized by an initial lesion, satellite
adenopathy, and an erythematous maculopapular rash.
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section13/chapter159/159g.htm
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic510.htm
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Rickettsia
rickettsii
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rmsf/
BRUCELLOSIS (Brucella abortus)
(Undulant fever, Bang's disease, malta fever)
Mediterranean spotted fever (Boutonneuse
fever), Rickettsia conorii
http://members.xoom.it/Aidsimaging/rickett/rickett1.htm
Research on Rickettsia Infections by Cecil
Jadin
http://www.cfsresearch.org/rickettsia/jadin/
Brucella
DIAGNOSIS: Clinical: Symptoms of brucellosis are
variable and diagnosis is, therefore, very difficult. Flu-like symptoms with
limb and back pain, an intermittant fever with malaise may last up to 3 months
for acute disease (a year or more for subacute or chronic disease).
Laboratory: Isolation of Brucella from the blood is possible. Cultures must be
incubated 3-4 weeks with added CO2.
http://medic.med.uth.tmc.edu/path/00001493.htm
AND
What is mycoplasma infection?
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/myco.htm
What Is Mycoplasma?
Mycoplasma is the smallest and simplest subclass of bacteria. While it is
not new, the recent discovery of certain altered forms of Mycoplasma reveals
some species that have become more invasive and more difficult to find.
These varieties may have wide-ranging and complex effects on the systems of the
human body.
http://chronicfatigue.about.com/library/weekly/aa012799.htm?once=true&
MYCOPLASMA
The Linking Pathogen in Neurosystemic Diseases
Several strains of mycoplasma have been "engineered" to become more
dangerous. They are now being blamed for AIDS, cancer, CFS, MS, CJD and other
neurosystemic diseases.
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/mycoplasma.html
Chlamydia
http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/microbiology/spirochetes.html
Zoonotic Diseases
Above TWO charts found on CDC website:
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