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    Modified Two-Tiered Testing Enzyme Immunoassay Algorithm for Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease, 2022, Khan et al

    So, this is a big deal, this MTTT. Go to the CDC Lyme website and there are now TWO accepted methods to test positive for Lyme: The conventional...
    Post by: duncan, Jul 27, 2022 in forum: 'Conditions related to ME/CFS' news and research
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    Efficacy of Short-Term High Dose Pulsed Dapsone Combination Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease.., 2022, Horowitz and Freeman

    Dapsone. Ick.
    Post by: duncan, Jul 27, 2022 in forum: 'Conditions related to ME/CFS' news and research
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    A diagnostic classifier for gene expression-based identification of early Lyme disease, 2022, Servellita et al

    Looks like a Hopkins endeavor, at least some of its authors. Cool premise for early Lyme, i.e. before IgM's typically kick in with Lyme. Left me a...
    Post by: duncan, Jul 27, 2022 in forum: 'Conditions related to ME/CFS' news and research
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    Over 14% of Worldwide Population Has (Had) Lyme

    It got my attention. What for me is possibly even more disconcerting, is I suspect (but do not know) this estimate did not include seronegative...
    Post by: duncan, Jul 23, 2022 in forum: Infections: Lyme, Candida, EBV ...
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    Over 14% of Worldwide Population Has (Had) Lyme

    Or different prevalences of various tick species and Bbsl strains, depending on geography.
    Post by: duncan, Jul 22, 2022 in forum: Infections: Lyme, Candida, EBV ...
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    Over 14% of Worldwide Population Has (Had) Lyme

    A small correction if you don't mind: Seropositivity doesn't necessarily reflect current infection, it can at best only indicate exposure. That...
    Post by: duncan, Jul 22, 2022 in forum: Infections: Lyme, Candida, EBV ...
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    Over 14% of Worldwide Population Has (Had) Lyme

    https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/more-than-14-of-worlds-population-likely-has-had-tick-borne-lyme-disease/ If the current world population is...
    Thread by: duncan, Jul 22, 2022, 6 replies, in forum: Infections: Lyme, Candida, EBV ...
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    Long Covid in the media and social media 2022

    Wish someone asked him about chronic Lyme. I'm getting an uneasy feeling that perhaps he holds LC with the same regard he does chronic Lyme -...
    Post by: duncan, Jul 10, 2022 in forum: Long Covid news
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    Predicting distributions of blacklegged ticks, Lyme disease spirochetes and human Lyme disease cases in the eastern US, 2022, Burtis et al

    CDC needs to be helping develop better diagnostics, not wasting its time playing with models. High-predictive models that say Lyme cannot be in a...
    Post by: duncan, Jul 6, 2022 in forum: 'Conditions related to ME/CFS' news and research
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    Management and clinical outcomes of Lyme disease in acute care facilities in 2 endemic regions of Quebec, Canada:, 2022, Musonera et al

    I'd have preferred if this attempt to study the clinical course of Lyme disease included more late stage cases. Only 15 percent of this...
    Post by: duncan, Jul 4, 2022 in forum: 'Conditions related to ME/CFS' news and research
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    Sooner or Later, We’ll All Belong to the Kingdom of the Sick (Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, author of The Invisible Kingdom)

    Beyond her book, she has a bunch of salient essays in good journals like the Atlantic. In what is an important consideration for me, she seems...
    Post by: duncan, Jul 4, 2022 in forum: General ME/CFS news
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    Who Hijacked ME?

    Good luck with that. PEM doesn't necessarily adhere to schedule. It even sometimes presents chronologically different depending on whether the...
    Post by: duncan, Jul 3, 2022 in forum: Diagnostic Criteria and Naming Discussions
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    Survey of Anti-Pathogen Antibody Levels in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2022, Levine,Hanson et al

    I am a little concerned about their assumptions and inferences (and I'm a fan of this tandem +). Then again, I'm unclear about some specifics....
    Post by: duncan, Jun 13, 2022 in forum: ME/CFS research news
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    The Occurrence of Hyperactivated Platelets and Fibrinaloid Microclots in ME/CFS, 2022, Nunes, Pretorius et al

    I'm having trouble reading the paper. Do these pwME have normal platelet counts? What happens if you have perpetually low platelet counts, and...
    Post by: duncan, Jun 9, 2022 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Is tinnitus an ME symptom? - Discussion of evidence

    Look up Vickie Logan. Her singular case study almost dismantled Lyme orthodoxy. Before the medical case study, her story was just an anecdote. So...
    Post by: duncan, May 31, 2022 in forum: General and other signs and symptoms
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    Is tinnitus an ME symptom? - Discussion of evidence

    By reading. I then explain why reading levels the playing field, e.g., it provides readers with knowledge of those associations where they have...
    Post by: duncan, May 31, 2022 in forum: General and other signs and symptoms
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    Is tinnitus an ME symptom? - Discussion of evidence

    Not sure what "So, patients read" means? It means pretty much everything clinicians can read, patients can read, and frequently do, and maybe...
    Post by: duncan, May 31, 2022 in forum: General and other signs and symptoms
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    Is tinnitus an ME symptom? - Discussion of evidence

    You cannot see the irony here? Conventional medicine has not allowed poor quality evidence to slow its momentum for years, and yet the...
    Post by: duncan, May 31, 2022 in forum: General and other signs and symptoms
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    Is tinnitus an ME symptom? - Discussion of evidence

    So, patients read. And don't be so fast to dismiss the power of anecdotes. It's what many case studies are all about, and case studies...
    Post by: duncan, May 31, 2022 in forum: General and other signs and symptoms
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    Is tinnitus an ME symptom? - Discussion of evidence

    What do you imagine patients bring to the discussion? What do you imagine clinicians bring? They both bring expertise, albeit it different forms,...
    Post by: duncan, May 31, 2022 in forum: General and other signs and symptoms
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