Post-bacterial infection chronic fatigue syndrome is not a latent infection. Melenotte et al. (2019).

[ME/CFS Skeptic]

Epub ahead of print. French study, university of Marseille.

Abstract
Post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome is a public health problem. Etiologies and physiopathological mechanisms are unknown. Some viruses are known to be involved in post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome, but the role of bacterial infection is still questioned, especially in cases of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome where subjective symptoms are regularly attributed to the presence of the dormant bacterium without scientific evidence. However, the medical experience of recalcitrant infections, relapses, and reactivations questions the role of "dormant bacteria" in asymptomatic latent infections as well as in subjective symptoms. We summarized scientific literature data on post-bacterial infection chronic fatigue syndrome, the role of dormant bacteria in latent infections, and bacterial asymptomatic carriage. Subjective symptoms described in post-infectious chronic fatigue syndromes are still misunderstood and there is no evidence suggesting that such symptoms could be related to dormant bacterial infection or carriage of viable bacteria. Psychological trauma may be part of these subjective symptoms. Post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome could nonetheless be due to unknown microorganisms. Antibiotic treatment is not required for latent infections, except for latent syphilis and latent tuberculosis infections to prevent, after the primary infection, progression to the secondary or tertiary stage of the disease.

 

[Arnie Pye]

Link to the above paper : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X18307923

 

[pteropus]

(waits to read the full details - and ponders the confident assumption that ONLY latent syphillis and tuberculosis need antibiotic treatment, despite the fact that some cell-wall-deficient bacteria can lurk undetected in human blood for decades, and there is no definitive & complete catalogue of all bacteria on our planet)

 

[duncan]

"Psychological trauma may be part of these subjective symptoms."

Bets?

ETA: I find this abstract troubling. Planting the psych seed is disturbing in its own right, but reducing PTLDS to an assumptive close with only subjective symptoms borders on absurd. I have been treated for Lyme, and I have both subjective and objective symptoms - as do many with so-called PTLDS.

I also have evidence of continued infection, although not conclusive.

This seeming mischaracterization of symptoms is rife in historic Lyme medical circles, although that is changing.

 

[rvallee]

"Psychological trauma may be part of these subjective symptoms."

Bets?

ETA: I find this abstract troubling. Planting the psych seed is disturbing in its own right, but reducing PTLDS to an assumptive close with only subjective symptoms borders on absurd. I have been treated for Lyme, and I have both subjective and objective symptoms - as do many with so-called PTLDS.

I also have evidence of continued infection, although not conclusive.

This seeming mischaracterization of symptoms is rife in historic Lyme medical circles, although that is changing.

Also may be part of these subjective symptoms: Bigfoot, solar flares, swing dancing, butterflies, precession of the equinox, intestinal gas, fox puppies.

If we're going with "may be", might as well cover everything that is possible.

Except, of course, for an actual pathophysiology. That it may not be. Also don't fund research in case you may find something, it would be quite embarrassing after decades of ideological sabotage and billions wasted on useless alternative medicine.