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Mycoplasma Testing Services
We offer Mycoplasma testing in cell lines, biologicals and samples
of human origin (CLIA waived) by PCR, cell-based fluorescence, according to 21CFR 610.30, 9CFR113.28 or the 1993 Points to Consider Guidelines
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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."