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Old 12-15-2011, 09:16 PM
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Default Rapid Transmission of Lyme Disease

For many years now, doctors advised patients not to worry if an embedded tick has been on them less than "x" hours. I'd like to share some knowledge from my discussions (and interviews) with patients and doctors:

- be wary of blood tests, but at the same time consider this: a good doc will employ tests that use regionalized assays (for different geographies and 300+ Borrelia strains);
- Lyme disease is a clinical diagnosis;
- Borrelia can live inside human cells, outside human cells, create biofilm communities and easily avoid most diagnostic detection;
- docs don't like to prescribe antibiotics more than a few weeks, and usually only prescribe doxycycline;
- docs will (generally) not perform blood tests on co-infections or the other microbes that most ticks carry (mycoplasma, viruses, microfilaria, etc.).

Lots to know, unfortunately. At least this abstract below shows that some doctors are committed to patients' health and getting answers on "chronic lyme disease," something that, is for some reason, still controversial.

Look at ticks this way: they are the perfect, mobile, biofilm-making machine. They are a roving septic tank with sophisticated hydraulic & pumping systems...

Refer to my interview with Dr. Eva Sapi, here:

Dr. Eva Sapi - Geneticist, Microbiologist (Two Videos Available)

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Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2011 Nov 18. [Epub ahead of print]
Clinical evidence for rapid transmission of Lyme disease following a tickbite.

Hynote ED, Mervine PC, Stricker RB.
Abstract

Lyme disease transmission to humans by Ixodes ticks is thought to require at least 36-48 h of tick attachment. We describe 3 cases in which transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochetal agent of Lyme disease, appears to have occurred in less than 24 h based on the degree of tick engorgement, clinical signs of acute infection, and immunologic evidence of acute Lyme disease.

Health care providers and individuals exposed to ticks should be aware that transmission of Lyme disease may occur more rapidly than animal models suggest. A diagnosis of Lyme disease should not be ruled out based on a short tick attachment time in a subject with clinical evidence of B. burgdorferi infection.

PMID: 22104184 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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