Morgellons Discussion

In the last episode, I mistakenly stated that biofilm is a term that means a group of pathogens when in fact beneficial microbes also colonize. https://www.cs.montana.edu/webworks/projects/stevesbook/contents/chapters/chapter001/section005/green/page001.html

Mixed Borrelia burgdorferi and Helicobacter pylori Biofilms in Morgellons Disease Dermatological Specimens https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31108976/

Middelveen MJ, Filush KR, Bandoski C, Kasliwala RS, Melillo A, Stricker RB, Sapi E. Mixed Borrelia burgdorferi and Helicobacter pylori Biofilms in Morgellons Disease Dermatological Specimens. Healthcare (Basel). 2019 May 17;7(2):70. doi: 10.3390/healthcare7020070. PMID: 31108976; PMCID: PMC6627092.

Multilingual Bacteria https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/02/bacteria-have-more-to-say-than-previously-thought/

Cigarette smoke exposure redirects Staphylococcus aureus to a virulence profile associated with persistent infection https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47258-6

Why Am I Still Sick? https://amzn.to/2FRaZLj

Tau in Alzheimer Disease and Related Tauopathies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3090074/

Iqbal K, Liu F, Gong CX, Grundke-Iqbal I. Tau in Alzheimer disease and related tauopathies. Curr Alzheimer Res. 2010;7(8):656-664. doi:10.2174/156720510793611592

Bacteria and Chronic Infections https://www.coursera.org/learn/bacterial-infections

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