Re: MYCOPLASMIC PNEUMONIAE

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[] MYCOPLASMIC PNEUMONIAE

Here is what I have in my library on Mycoplasmas.....I carry (5) strains,

one

being mycoplasma pneumoniae....

Mycoplasmas

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Other illnesses often have multiple strains of mycoplasmas, or mycoplasmas

combined with co-infections of other bacteria or viruses. " In recent

published

studies from our laboratory, most CFS and FMS patients had multiple

mycoplasmal

infections. The number of different mycoplasmal species in these patients

increased with the number of years the patients were sick and with the

severity

of their illness, " says Dr. Nicolson.

" We have found that when the few asymptomatic subjects have blood

mycoplasmal

infections, they have only one species, versus when we examine patients who

are sick with various chronic illnesses, they usually have multiple species

of

mycoplasmas and other infections such as the cytomegalo virus. In Lyme

disease, we often find mycoplasmal co-infections, most frequently, M.

fermentans,

along with the Borrelia that causes it. This makes sense when you consider

that

insects, such as the ticks that carry the Borrelia, also can carry

mycoplasmas.

Dr. Eli Mordechai of Medical Diagnostics Lab of New Jersey has exactly the

same findings in Lyme disease patients. "

All the researchers above agree that long-term antibiotics must be initiated

to treat mycoplasmal infections. Additional strategies must be applied to

protect and strengthen the immune system and provide essential nutrients and

vitamins.

" We always try to use the least toxic approaches in working with

pathologies,

so we use a lot of natural products, " Dr. See says. For example, probiotics

and non-denatured whey protein isolates are used to support the GI tract--a

combination that helps prevent overgrowth of undesirable microorganisms.

" However, " adds Dr. See, " in our experience, and in the literature, we have

found no

other way to deal with mycoplasmas than fairly long-term treatment with

certain

antibiotics. " Fortunately, the Nicolsons and their colleagues have succeeded

in helping many veterans and others infected with mycoplasmas, but

controversies surrounding their work and these mysterious microorganisms

still persist.

Says Dr. Nicolson, " Future efforts to explain and treat a variety of chronic

illnesses that currently have unknown etiologies (causes) will undoubtedly

focus more on chronic infections as underlying causes or as opportunistic

infections in immune-impaired patients. We have found that chronic

infections caused

by mycoplasmas, viruses and other microorganisms cannot be ignored, because

these patients will remain ill and not recover from their illnesses if these

infections remain untreated. "

Contact:

Additional information on mycoplasma treatment, yeast overgrowth, nutrition,

and treating multiple infections associated with mycoplasmas can be found on

the Institute for Molecular Medicine's website (www.immed.org).

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eMedicine - Pneumonia, Mycoplasma : Article by Santos Cantu, Jr, MD

http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic467.htm

Herrmann´s Home Page

http://www.zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de/M_pneumoniae/MP_Home.html

The Analyst - Internet Health Report: Condition: Mycoplasma Infection

http://www.digitalnaturopath.com/cond/C670329.html

Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma

http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/mayer/myco.htm

Mycoplasma Pneumoniae

http://pedclerk.bsd.uchicago.edu/mycoplasma.html

Mycoplasma pneumoniae*

http://medinfo.ufl.edu/year2/mmid/bms5300/bugs/mycoppne.html