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*Tokarz R, Tagliafierro T, Sameroff S, Cucura DM, Oleynik A, Che X, Jain K, Lipkin WI./Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases/, 2019 Apr 15. pii: S1877-959X(19)30033-0.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2019.04.011
Abstract
We employed high throughput sequencing to survey the microbiomes of
Ixodes scapularis collected in New York and Connecticut. We examined 197
individual I. scapularis adults and pools from 132 adults and 197 nymphs.
We detected:
We did not detect Borrelia mayonii, Ehrlichia muris eauclairensis, Bartonella spp. or pathogenic Babesia species other than B. microti.
The most abundant bacterium(65%), and only rickettsial species identified, was the endosymbiont Rickettsia buchneri.
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**Comment**
Nematodes (worms) have been found to hide borrelia spirochetes: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/06/03/borrelia-hiding-in-worms-causing-chronic-brain-diseases/ This is important from the standpoint that it shows anthelmintics may be helpful in some patients.
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A North Carolina State University researcher has discovered that bacteria transmitted by fleas–and potentially ticks–can be passed to human babies by the mother, causing chronic infections and raising the possibility of bacterially induced birth defects.
Dr. Ed Breitschwerdt, professor of internal medicine in the Department of Clinical Sciences, is among the world’s leading experts on Bartonella, a bacteria that is maintained in nature by fleas, ticks and other biting insects, but which can be transmitted by infected cats and dogs as well. The most commonly known Bartonella-related illness is cat scratch disease, caused by B. henselae, a strain of Bartonella that can be carried in a cat’s blood for months to years. Cat scratch disease was thought to be a self-limiting, or “one-time” infection; however, Breitschwerdt’s previous work discovered cases of children and adults with chronic, blood-borne Bartonella infections–from strains of the bacteria that are most often transmitted to cats (B. henselae) and dogs (B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii) by fleas and other insects.
In his most recent case study, Breitschwerdt’s research group tested blood and tissue samples taken over a period of years from a mother, father and son who had suffered chronic illnesses for over a decade. Autopsy samples from their daughter–the son’s twin who died shortly after birth–contained DNA evidence of B. henselae and B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffi infection, which was also found in the other members of the family.
Both parents had suffered recurring neurological symptoms including headaches and memory loss, as well as shortness of breath, muscle weakness and fatigue before the children were born. In addition, their 10-year-old son was chronically ill from birth and their daughter died due to a heart defect at nine days of age.
Results of the parents’ medical histories and the microbiological tests indicated that the parents had been exposed to Bartonella prior to the birth of the twins, and finding the same bacteria in both children, one shortly after birth and the other 10 years later, indicates that they may have become infected while in utero.
Breitschwerdt’s research appears online in the April 14 Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
“This is yet more evidence that Bartonella bacteria cause chronic intravascular infections in people with otherwise normal immune systems, infections that can span a decade or more,” Breitschwerdt says. “Also this new evidence supports the potential of trans-placental infection and raises the possibility that maternal infection with these bacteria might also cause birth defects.”
The Department of Clinical Sciences is part of NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Breitschwerdt is also an adjunct professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center.
Note to editors: An abstract of the paper follows.
“Molecular evidence of perinatal transmission of Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii and B.henselae to a child”
Authors: Edward B. Breitschwerdt, Ricardo G. Maggi and Patricia E. Mascarelli, NC State University; Peter Farmer, Department of Pathology, North Shore University Hospital
Published: April 14, 2010 in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Abstract:
Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii, Bartonella henselae or DNA of both organisms was
amplified and sequenced from blood, enrichment blood cultures or autopsy tissues from four family members. Historical and microbiological results support perinatal transmission of Bartonella species in this family.
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**Comment**
If it weren’t for the work of this singular man, we’d be clueless about the implications of Bartonella. Heavily vested in finding answers due to his father’s death to Bartonella, Dr. Breitschwerdt is the only one currently looking at congenital transmission: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044516/#!po=1.02041
We’ve known about Lyme for over 40 years and we still don’t have good studies looking at this very real issue of sexual and congenital transmission. Only one study on sexual transmission done in 2014 showed the Lyme organism in semen and vaginal secretions, but the medical world sniffed and rolled over in bed. Nothing’s been done since.
As to congenital transmission (mother to baby), Canada recognizes it, but the U.S. still doesn’t: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/05/canada-acknowledges-maternal-fetal-transmission-of-lyme-disease/ There’s 33 years of documentation gathered by a ticked off Canadian mom who happens to be a nurse: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/06/19/33-years-of-documentation-of-maternal-child-transmission-of-lyme-disease-and-congenital-lyme-borreliosis-a-review/
We need these transmission studies done on each and EVERY single organism implicated with Lyme/MSIDS. We can talk tick prevention all the day long until we are blue in the face, but what if you can contract Lyme/MSIDS through a variety of means? Many say we can: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/02/transmission-of-lyme-disease-lida-mattman-phd/
http://www.endowmentmed.org/pdf/endowmentupdatelymes2.pdf In 1995 Dr. Mattman obtained positive cultures for Bb from 43 of 47 chronically ill people. She also recovered Bb spirochetes from 8 out of 8 Parkinson patients, 41 cases of multiple scierosis (MS), 21 cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and ALL tested cases of Alzheimer’s.
More on Bartonella: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/01/03/bartonella-treatment/
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/08/case-series-bartonella-ocular-manifestations/
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/01/02/bartonella-langerhans-cell-histiocytosis-cancer/
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/04/endocarditis-consider-bartonella/
The black-legged tick, also known as the deer tick, can carry a variety of pathogens, including the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
Syracuse, N.Y. — Bryon Backenson has taken ticks head-on since 1992, walking the woods and fields of New York and Connecticut to find, gather and test disease-carrying ticks.
“We go to 150 sites in spring and fall to collect ticks,” said Backenson, New York’s deputy director of communicable disease control. “In the years we’ve been doing this with staff and students, we’ve never had anybody who has gotten a tick-borne disease.”
Ticks, particularly the black-legged or deer tick, carry a variety of diseases. The most common and well-known is Lyme disease, caused by a bacteria carried in the tick’s gut.
Backenson said he and his fellow researchers are living proof that prevention works.
“We practice what we preach,” he said.
Upstate NY tick expert: How to protect yourself from Lyme disease
Ticks have been increasing as the climate warms, SUNY ESF researcher says.
He recommends that if you’re going to be in an area likely to have ticks, you do what researchers do:
— Wear light-colored clothes so you can see the dark ticks climbing on you.
— Tuck the bottoms of your pant legs into your socks to make it harder for ticks to reach your skin.
–Check your entire body at least every 24 hours, and remove any ticks you find on your skin.
— Consider using bug repellents that contain DEET for skin and permethrin for clothes. (Researchers in the field have one disadvantage here: They can’t wear bug repellent because they’re trying to catch ticks, not scare them away.)
“As long as people take the proper precautions and end up removing ticks, there’s a really good likelihood you’re not going to get some tick-borne disease,” Backenson said. “If you happen to get the rash from Lyme, or flu-like symptoms that make you suspect Lyme, early doses of antibiotics can cure relatively quickly the majority of cases we see.”
Backenson also said that most tick bites likely don’t lead to disease because the ticks are pulled off before they can ingest blood and inject the bacteria. He said New York has about 8,000 new cases of Lyme disease every year, but he estimates that New Yorkers get 40,000 to 50,000 tick bites every year.
“I firmly believe there are lots and lots of tick bites out there that don’t necessarily lead to disease,” Backenson said.
The health department has several videos on its website about how to keep ticks away, and how to pull them off when they bite.
The peak season for Lyme disease, late spring and summer, is approaching. That’s when the tick nymphs are feeding, and they account for the vast majority of Lyme disease cases. While nymphal ticks are less likely to carry the bacteria than adult ticks, nymphs are much smaller, so people don’t see them to remove in time. Nymphs also tend to be most active in summer, when more people are out in woods and fields.
In much of Upstate, about 25 percent of nymphs carry the Lyme bacteria. That jumps to about 50 percent in adults, which have fed more often than nymphs and have had more chances to get the bacteria from the blood of deer, rodents and other animals.
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**Comment**
A few points:
Ticks are marvelous ecoadaptors and are impervious to the climate as shown by independent Canadian tick researcher John Scott: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/13/study-shows-lyme-not-propelled-by-climate-change/
“For blacklegged ticks, climate change is an apocryphal issue.” – John Scott
Again, researchers are about statistical significance – not individual significance. If you are the ONE sorry sucker who gets infected, all the statistics in the world become irrelevant. Why they state such things is beyond me. Treat each and EVERY tick bite seriously. https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/12/07/igenex-presentation/ In this link we learn about a little girl that within 4-6 hours has facial palsy, and couldn’t walk or talk. Some cases escalate quickly.
As far as the bull’s eye rash goes, anywhere from 27-80% get it – hardly a sure thing. IF you have the rash, you HAVE LYME DISEASE. Period. If you don’t get the rash, it means nothing. The rash criteria has kept people from diagnosis and treatment for decades. Don’t let this happen to you. The “wait and see” if you develop symptoms approach has not and will not ever work. If you are bit by a tick, go in immediately and demand treatment. This could very well save your life and prevent you from chronic life-long symptoms.
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