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Authors: Middelveen MJ, Mayne PJ, Kahn DG, Stricker RB
Video abstract presented by Raphael B Stricker
Views: 15
Published Date January 2013 Volume 2013:6 Pages 1 - 21
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S39017
Received: 10 October 2012
Accepted: 28 November 2012
Published: 08 January 2013
Marianne J Middelveen,1 Peter J Mayne,1 Douglas G Kahn,2 Raphael B Stricker1
1International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2Department of Pathology, Olive View–UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA, USA
Abstract: Morgellons disease is an emerging skin disease characterized by formation of dermal filaments associated with multisystemic symptoms and tick-borne illness.
Some clinicians hypothesize that these often colorful dermal filaments are textile fibers, either self-implanted by patients or accidentally adhering to lesions, and conclude that patients with this disease have delusions of infestation. We present histological observations and electron microscopic imaging from representative
Morgellons disease samples revealing that dermal filaments in these cases are keratin and collagen in composition and result from proliferation and activation of keratinocytes and fibroblasts in the epidermis. Spirochetes were detected in the dermatological specimens from our study patients, providing evidence that Morgellons disease is associated with an infectious process.
Above Discovered at this link by Gina: lymebusters.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=rash&action=display&thread=15647
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Thank You to those risking so much and anyone doing this for very long understands full well what I'm saying.
Authors: Middelveen MJ, Mayne PJ, Kahn DG, Stricker RB
Video abstract presented by Raphael B Stricker
Views: 15
Published Date January 2013 Volume 2013:6 Pages 1 - 21
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S39017
Received: 10 October 2012
Accepted: 28 November 2012
Published: 08 January 2013
Marianne J Middelveen,1 Peter J Mayne,1 Douglas G Kahn,2 Raphael B Stricker1
1International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2Department of Pathology, Olive View–UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA, USA
Abstract: Morgellons disease is an emerging skin disease characterized by formation of dermal filaments associated with multisystemic symptoms and tick-borne illness.
Some clinicians hypothesize that these often colorful dermal filaments are textile fibers, either self-implanted by patients or accidentally adhering to lesions, and conclude that patients with this disease have delusions of infestation. We present histological observations and electron microscopic imaging from representative
Morgellons disease samples revealing that dermal filaments in these cases are keratin and collagen in composition and result from proliferation and activation of keratinocytes and fibroblasts in the epidermis. Spirochetes were detected in the dermatological specimens from our study patients, providing evidence that Morgellons disease is associated with an infectious process.
Above Discovered at this link by Gina: lymebusters.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=rash&action=display&thread=15647
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Thank You to those risking so much and anyone doing this for very long understands full well what I'm saying.