Testing for bad bugs : was Testing for mycoplasma, Jarisch-Herxheimer reactions

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Boy oh boy, that's a tasty menu, Tony!

Would you try to get cultures for each of these? I think I might be able to convince one of my doctors to do this, but then I tend to be optimistic ...

Carole> Carol> Woof! woof! your definately barking up the wrong tree. I have doen (quinolone damage)heaps of work on bacteria and the status quo of problems is when your ill with these diseases- the common culprits are coagulase negative staphs (shoemaker,newcastle) that have got some nasty toxins and immune system beating high antimicrobial resistance traits, followed by pseudonomas. that fungal infection you think your got often is pseudonomas aueriganosa and not fungus at all.The third candidate is candida. Playing around for the last few years I can safely say that these are environmentally and chemically sensitive organisms that spring up according to the terrain.They are plastered in every nook and cranny and cover every millimeter of your external and internal anatomy. Then you've got thrown in for good measure and added twists to your drug regime staph areus a major pathogen which is just waiting it's oppurtunity, and alongside that often you'll culture VRE vancomycin resistant enterococcus