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| On 27 Sep 2005 12:19:45 -0700, overman74@hotmail.com stated:
>Well, that excellent scientist was not so nice in this article on Dr.
>Harvey's treatment. If you say he is excellent, then I would have to
>reconsider....but don't really have enuf info, and anyway, what is my
>opinion worth?
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>Here is the Harvey article: http://www.ilads.org/harvey2.html
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>And here is what Radolf has to say in a recent journal article about
>autoimmunity and "post-treatment chronic Lyme Disease" :
>"...clinicians caring for patients with PTCLD must forego costly,
>irrational, and potentially harmful antimicrobial regimens."
Radolf shown to be an idiot or worse.
"I don’t believe there is any evidence that real, properly diagnosed
ALS is caused by Borrelia or that it is treatable with antibiotics.”
This stated when IN FACT there was evidence.
Immunologic reactivity against Borrelia burgdorferi in patients with
motor neuron disease.
Halperin JJ, Kaplan GP, Brazinsky S, Tsai TF, Cheng T, Ironside A, Wu
P, Delfiner J, Golightly M, Brown RH, et al.
Department of Neurology, State university of New York, Stony Brook
11794.
Of 19 unselected patients with the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) living in Suffolk County, New York (an area of high
Lyme disease prevalence), 9 had serologic evidence of exposure to
Borrelia burgdorferi; 4 of 38 matched controls were seropositive.
Eight of 9 seropositive patients were male (8 of 12 male patients vs 2
of 24 controls). Rates of seropositivity were lower among patients
with ALS from nonendemic areas. All patients had typical ALS; none had
typical Lyme disease. Cerebrospinal fluid was examined in 24 ALS
patients--3 (all with severe bulbar involvement) appeared to have
intrathecal synthesis of anti-B burgdorferi antibody. Following
therapy with antibiotics, 3 patients with predominantly lower motor
neuron abnormalities appeared to improve, 3 with severe bulbar
dysfunction deteriorated rapidly, and all others appeared unaffected.
There appears to be a statistically significant association between
ALS and immunoreactivity to B burgdorferi, at least among men living
in hyperendemic areas.
Publication Types:
* Case Reports
PMID: 2334308 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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