Borrelia cyst form - not dormant!

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Hello groups,

I just posted this at the Rife forum and want to pass it along.

Best wishes, Char

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I have just reviewed a couple papers about the form of Borrelia that is most often called "cyst". I had thought from reading here and at other lyme groups, that the "cyst" form is basically dormant. But from what I read, that is not true.Part of the underlying problem, according to the Norwegian researcher Oystein Brorson (and colleagues), is the confusing terminology. They use the term "round bodies". This paper from 2009 says,http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774030/

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Persistence of tissue spirochetes of Borrelia burgdorferi as helices and round bodies (RBs) explains many erythema-Lyme disease symptoms. Spirochete RBs (reproductive propagules also called coccoid bodies, globular bodies, spherical bodies, granules, cysts, L-forms, sphaeroplasts, or vesicles) are induced by environmental conditions unfavorable for growth.

and later,

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Although terminologcal confusion (cysts, granules, RBs, vesicles, etc.) exacerbated the problem, the dismissal of an entire scientific literature was unjustified (23).

But what is indeed interesting are the pictures now available of the "round bodies" or "cysts". They show presence of spiral form inside the round body. Please see figure 3E at the above link. And there is another paper at www.im.microbios.org/26june04/09%20Brorson.pdf which shows the same in figure 2 on page 3.That picture additionally shows the round body (cyst) undergoing fission division.The first paper also gives indication of active processes going on in the round bodies/cysts, and gives suspicion that spirochetes may reproduce in the round bodies:

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In Fig. 3E Left, young RB reveal numerous spirochetes and flagella inside healthy cell walls and a beginning formation of a core structure, and in Fig. 3E Right are old RBs with a few core structures, healthy cell wall, and numerous flagella. When replaced into growth media under favorable environmental conditions, helical, motile spirochetes leave the RBs and swim away...[snip]...Both the filamentous and round body forms of spirochetes are fully viable.

Even though the title of the first article mentioned above deals with testing an antibiotic against the cyst form, don't be misled about the article contents. There is a good amount of background information in this article about this form of Borrelia.Perhaps we need to re-assess the current sentiment that the cyst (round body) form of Borrelia is untouchable by the technologies we discuss here. There may be tissue penetration issues now and then, but this information indicates we are dealing with another form that is shaped differently than the spirochete, and perhaps can be affected with the optimal conditions. What those conditions are...yes we are all trying to figure that out!One additional quote that I want to pass along from the first article:

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An estimated 20,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported annually in the U.S., but the actual number is estimated to be closer to 200,000 cases per year. In central Europe and Scandinavia, the disease is highly endemic.

Wow. That's a huge number of cases per year.Char