Jenna’s Lyme Blog

If simply adding other strains of the same Lyme species increases the western blot’s sensitivity, the changes needed in order to detect various Lyme species may be incredible.

Posted on February 7th, 2012 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News, Research and Development. Comments: None

To address the need for better Lyme diagnosis, NeuroScience developed MY Lyme Immune I.D.TM. Here’s how the test works. An individual sends a blood specimen to the laboratory, where white blood (immune) cells are isolated. In the ITT portion of the test, the cells are cultured for five days with individual B. burgdorferi-specific antigens, such as VlsE-1 and other proteins. If T cells that respond to a particular antigen are present in the culture, they become activated and proliferate. This indicates that the person has been exposed to B. burgdorferi.

Posted on January 30th, 2012 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Research and Development. Comments: None

Researchers in Italy and subsequently in the UK have recently (October and November 2011) published findings that demonstrate Bartonella heslslae transferring DNA to human endothelial cells.

Posted on December 14th, 2011 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Co-infections, Lyme News, Research and Development. Comments: 6

Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University … has also discovered that in addition to their “private languages”, many bacteria have developed generalized chemical messages that can be interpreted by members of other species. In lectures she postulates that in the future, we can hope to develop microbes that can “turn-on” good behavior and “turn-off” bad behavior.

Posted on December 8th, 2011 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development. Comments: 4

Researchers from Ludwig Maximilian University in Germany found that the application of a local antibacterial gel to the site of a bug bite that transmitted the infection may quickly kill the entire virus responsible for the disease.

Posted on December 2nd, 2011 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development, Treatment Protocols. Comments: 3

As Amy speaks to groups and continues to write about Lyme and her experience, the biggest question always pops up – is this really a cure?  Of course trying a homeopathic treatment that is$20 – $50/month seems possible financially, especially if you don’t know how long it will work and even IF it will work. [...]

Posted on September 29th, 2011 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Research and Development, Treatment Protocols. Comments: 22

The most important result of the research was the development of a new culture technique that dramatically increases the growth of Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the corkscrew-shaped bacteria (spirochete) that causes Lyme disease, making it easier to detect persistence of the bacteria. The new culture technique is also better able to grow the cyst form of the bacteria that is thought to be metabolically dormant.

Posted on September 28th, 2011 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development. Comments: 8

Back in 1985, Dr. Alan MacDonald stunned the medical world with a special slide show on neo-natal tissue that he had amassed over years of autopsying stillborn babies as the pathologist at South Hampton Hospital. Using a darkfield microscope technique to capture the images on film, Dr. MacDonald presented his shocking hypothesis to the world in Vienna at the Second International Symposium on Lyme Disease and Related Disorders.

Posted on September 20th, 2011 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Neurological Lyme disease, Research and Development. Comments: 49

They found that when mice were infected with B. burgdorferi, these live spirochetes accumulated in the animals’ lymph nodes.

Posted on June 24th, 2011 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development. Comments: 3