Background Information for patients
with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia,
or gulf war syndrome :
This is
an excerpt taken from an article posted
online by Dr. Garth Nicolson:
".......If certain microorganisms are associated
with chronic illnesses, is there any evidence
for microorganism infections in CFIDS, FMS,
GWI or RA patients? The answer is YES. In
~60% of CFIDS, ~70% of FMS and ~50% of GWI
and RA patients examined we and others,
principally Dr. Daryl See, formally of the
University of California College of Medicine,
Irvine, and Eli Mortechai of Medical Diagnostics
of New Jersey, are finding strong evidence
for mycoplasmal blood infections that can
explain much if not most of the chronic
signs and symptoms found in these patients.
In our studies on GWI, a CFIDS-like illness
[4], we have found mycoplasmal infections
in the blood of about one-half of over 200
patients, and these patients were found
to have principally one infectious species
of mycoplasma, M. fermentans [4-6]. However,
in about 60% of the >200 civilians with
CFIDS and FMS that we have examined we are
finding a variety of pathogenic mycoplasma
species, such as M. fermentans, M. penetrans,
M. pneumoniae, M. genitalium, M. pirum and
M. hominis, in their white blood cells [6].
The tests that we use to identify mycoplasmal
infections, Forensic Polymerase Chain Reaction
and Nucleoprotein Gene Tracking, are very
sensitive and highly specific. These tests
are a dramatic improvement over the relatively
insensitive serum antibody and other tests
that are currently being used to assay for
systemic infections."
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