[ Re: Culturing CWD (was CWD)

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Tony

The microscope is a Brunel Haemoscope with a camera to feed images into

the PC. Magnification is about 3000 on a full screen image (RBC diameter

is ~2.2cm) tho' some of this is empty magnification.

From your other message, incubator, agar & stain gives me some place to

start & I'll google for Oxoid. Building a temp-controlled enclosure

isn't a problem, I think the sticking point for us will be investing the

time & effort - it'll be mainly my husband's effort too. We'll have to

see how easy it is to get hold of the stuff for private use.

We take blood smears once or twice a week at the moment & Mike counts

the number of spirochetes in a given number of frames. Over the past 6

months the number has decreased slightly and the scatter in the data has

reduced. Also the filament form has changed - 12-18 months ago they were

mainly long - 20+ microns, frequently much longer. More recently

they've become shorter, mainly less than 10 microns. This does in

general does seem to go with better health, but there's no other

correlations between symptoms & blood appearance, sadly.

Sue

dumbaussie2000 wrote:

> Sue

> Dr. had an incubator a friend jed in the uk had. It was

> portable according to Jed.He got some plates locally from Oxoid in

> the UK somewhere.Basically easy to build something in a box which

> runs 37 degrees ..

> The microscope part is a little tricky? Explain yours I think it

> magnifies 2000 times total?A sony maybe?

> I neraly got one from san diego a while back.

> When your looking at spirochetes you have to realise that the jaw

> bone part of our ilness is host to spirochetes and no-one walks

> around without a couple of hundred bacterial species in there mouth

> which can make things a little tricky.

> But I am glad your here because when your at your sickest what

> changes do you notice in your blood?

> tony