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From: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va & aid=9891

Vitaly Citovsky is a professor of molecular and cell biology at Stony Brook

University in New York (SUNY). He is a world authority on the genetic

modification of cells by Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium causing crown gall

disease in plants, that has been widely used in creating genetically modified

(GM) plants since the 1980s because of its ability to transfer a piece of its

genetic material, the T-DNA on its tumour-inducing (Ti) plasmid to the plant

genome (see later for details).

Citovsky's team took scanning electron microscope pictures of the fibres in or

extruding from the skin of patients suffering from Morgellons disease,

confirming that they are unlike any ordinary natural or synthetic fibres (see

Fig. 1, assembled from Citovsky's website [8]).

Figure 1. Scanning electron microscope images of fibres from skin biopsies of

patients with Morgellons Disease - a, white fibre with calcite, scale bar 10

mm; b, green fibre with alumina `rock' protruding, scale bar 20 mm; c, various

ribbon-like, cylindrical and faceted fibres all coated with minerals, scale bar

10 mm; d, skin lesion with fibres stabbing through the epidermis, scale bar 300

mm

They also analysed patients for Agrobacterium DNA. Skin biopsy samples from

Morgellons patients were subjected to high-stringency polymerase chain reaction

(PCR) tests for genes encoded by the Agrobacterium chromosome and also for

Agrobacterium virulence (vir) genes and T-DNA on its Ti plasmid. They found that

" all Morgellons patients screened to date have tested positive for the presence

of Agrobacterium, whereas this microorganism has not been detected in any of the

samples derived from the control, healthy individuals. " Their preliminary

conclusion is that " Agrobacterium may be involved in the etiology and/or

progression " of Morgellons Disease.

The unpublished findings have been posted on a website [8] since January 2007.

And Dr. Citovsky's statement:

http://www.morgellonshope.com/index2.php?option=com_content & do_pdf=1 & id=754

Clarification from Vitaly Citovsky

Thursday, 08 March 2007

Last Updated Friday, 20 July 2007

I would like to clarify the involvement of my research group in the Morgellons

studies. We are biochemists and cell and

molecular biologists who study fundamental and diverse biological processes,

such as genetic transformation,

intercellular transport, and chromatin remodeling, using plants as experimental

systems. Because one of our model

organisms, Agrobacterium, is capable of genetically transforming not only

plants, but also other eukaryotic species,

including human cells, we were contacted by Dr. Stricker and MRF to investigate

potential presence of Agrobacterium in

biopsies from Morgellons patients. A limited number of anonymous samples

provided by Dr. Stricker were tested by PCR

for the presence of different families of Agrobacterium genes. Control reactions

included samples from healthy donors

provided by us. Only Morgellons, but not healthy subjects tested positive in

these studies. This observation does not

imply that Agrobacterium causes Morgellons or that Morgellons is indeed an

infectious disease. However, it does

encourage future studies to determine (i) statistical significance of our data,

(ii) whether or not Agrobacterium is not only

present extracellularly, but also causes genetic transformation of the infected

tissues, and (iii) whether or not infection of

laboratory animals with Agrobacterium can recreate at least some symptoms of

Morgellons. These are the immediate

goals which may or may not be pursued, depending on the available research

funding which is currently non-existent for

Morgellons.

Vitaly Citovsky, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

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