Ab and spirochetal disease

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In syphilis as well, there is good evidence for the commonness of

sero-negative or quite weakly sero-positive infection.

Mattmans book says suggests all the Ab can be tied up in immune

complexes (Ab-antigen complexes). She says this at least once

without a ref and maybe again with(?) one. I have tried to find

where she may(?) give the ref because I'd be very interested in

seeing justifications of this idea. It seems likely to me that it

would take something quite unusual to cause the body to fail to

manufacture Ab to surplus - the price for that failure is too high.

The ~1400 pathogens that infect humans all do something quite

unusual, or they wouldnt be able to overcome our superb immunity.

Still I'm skeptical of the immune complex theory. If the immune

complexes are present in serum it may be possible to test the theory

because there have now been developed techs which can dissociate at

least some Ab-antigen complexes. Cant remember where I read about

that.