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It was given the authority for us to "expel unclean spirits and to
cure disease and sickness and disease of every kind." Mt 10, 1.
Dear Sirs, Dear Dobson!
This verse is the Scripture from today’s Liturgy of the Word and
expresses our continuous developing in understanding and healing people.
One of the greatest possibilities in the medicine to be recognizes Lyme
borreliosis as the possible cause of the damage of the whole body
(Scrimenti). It could cause different curious forms of signs and symptoms
because of the different damage, but several antibiotics could eliminate
all of them. Both the widening circle (EM/ECM) and widening ailment is
characteristic for it since its clinical picture was described and the
causative Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato were recognized. It could cause
slowly developing symptoms and the disease could exist for years to
decades. Sometime the symptoms are waveing. There are adding new and new
syndromes or diseases to this curable illness. There are three main forms
of Lyme borreliosis dermatological, neurological and rheumatologic.
So, it should be investigate every case having neurological symptoms
especially on cerebral nerve and chronic process.
The definitive diagnosis could be set up by consultation(s) supported by
direct detection of the causative agent. Have to ask simple questions both
from the people and the Nature of this causative agent originally has
genetic polymorphism, which is changeable during the pathogenesis
especially during partial treatments.
There were two patients suffering ALS both having positive laboratory
results for Lyme borreliosis in our practice:
The first disease begun fifteen years ago in her twenty years and she was
seropositiv after and absorption process with microhaemagglutination.
Having several treatments with antibiotic gives very few improvements, but
could live for fifteen years.
The second has PCR positivity for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto
demonstrated with nested real-time PCR reporter molecule for melting print
analysis has been Sybr green-I in Light-cycler and PAGE applying OspA-
primers. Control substrains donated by Straubinger, Ackerman, Stanek. The
homology search validates primers and probes.
There was an ECM in his case history in 1996 (28 year old). The
neurological symptoms have appeared after a year. In the biopsy from
muscle demonstrates mixed axon degeneration & demyelinisation, and
perivascular infiltrations.
The patient has improvements during every antibiotic treatments, then
became into exist the slowly regression.
Summarizing the ALS syndrome and several, other ailments with unknown
origin have different causes. Among them Lyme borreliosis should have the
first place, and nearly all these patients are seronegative, so there is a
bad need in direct detection of the causative agent to prove this
possibility in the everyday practice.
I am a biologist specialising in biochemistry. As a mother of a child
with similar disorder I was wondering if Prof. Hawking could have been
more specific about his orthomolecular protocol. I'm very interested in
daily doses of nutrients he takes.
Karin Rizner, MS
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests:
No competing interests
06 December 2002
Karin Rizner
researcher
BIOTEH d.o.o. Vevska 52, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
The possible cause
It was given the authority for us to "expel unclean spirits and to
cure disease and sickness and disease of every kind." Mt 10, 1.
Dear Sirs, Dear Dobson!
This verse is the Scripture from today’s Liturgy of the Word and
expresses our continuous developing in understanding and healing people.
One of the greatest possibilities in the medicine to be recognizes Lyme
borreliosis as the possible cause of the damage of the whole body
(Scrimenti). It could cause different curious forms of signs and symptoms
because of the different damage, but several antibiotics could eliminate
all of them. Both the widening circle (EM/ECM) and widening ailment is
characteristic for it since its clinical picture was described and the
causative Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato were recognized. It could cause
slowly developing symptoms and the disease could exist for years to
decades. Sometime the symptoms are waveing. There are adding new and new
syndromes or diseases to this curable illness. There are three main forms
of Lyme borreliosis dermatological, neurological and rheumatologic.
So, it should be investigate every case having neurological symptoms
especially on cerebral nerve and chronic process.
The definitive diagnosis could be set up by consultation(s) supported by
direct detection of the causative agent. Have to ask simple questions both
from the people and the Nature of this causative agent originally has
genetic polymorphism, which is changeable during the pathogenesis
especially during partial treatments.
There were two patients suffering ALS both having positive laboratory
results for Lyme borreliosis in our practice:
The first disease begun fifteen years ago in her twenty years and she was
seropositiv after and absorption process with microhaemagglutination.
Having several treatments with antibiotic gives very few improvements, but
could live for fifteen years.
The second has PCR positivity for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto
demonstrated with nested real-time PCR reporter molecule for melting print
analysis has been Sybr green-I in Light-cycler and PAGE applying OspA-
primers. Control substrains donated by Straubinger, Ackerman, Stanek. The
homology search validates primers and probes.
There was an ECM in his case history in 1996 (28 year old). The
neurological symptoms have appeared after a year. In the biopsy from
muscle demonstrates mixed axon degeneration & demyelinisation, and
perivascular infiltrations.
The patient has improvements during every antibiotic treatments, then
became into exist the slowly regression.
Summarizing the ALS syndrome and several, other ailments with unknown
origin have different causes. Among them Lyme borreliosis should have the
first place, and nearly all these patients are seronegative, so there is a
bad need in direct detection of the causative agent to prove this
possibility in the everyday practice.
Competing interests:
Lyme borreliosis
Competing interests: No competing interests