BORRELIOOSIN TARTTUMINEN

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Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 21.11.2004 9:43

Borreliabakteeri aiheuttaa mm. useita samanlaisia oireita kuin muutkin spirokeetat. Miten on tarttumisen laita - tarttuvatko erilaiset spirokeetat eri tavoin - kupan aiheuttaja on spirokeetta. Borreliabakteeria on löydetty äidin maidosta, emättimen limakalvoilta ja siemennesteestä. Kirjallisuudesta löytyy tapausselostuksia joissa lapsi on sairastanut syntyessään borrelioosia. Tarttuuko borrelioosi siis sukupuolisessa kanssakäymisessä? Asia on sen verran vakava että borrelioosia koskevia tutkimuksia tulisi kohdentaa nopeasti myös tähän suuntaan.

Seuraavassa muutaman henkilön omakohtainen kokemus:


"A friend of mine had been taking care of her ill hubby for some time and he finally started getting proper treatment when she became pregnant. After the birth of the child she became extremely fatigued. Doctors told her is was just part of being a mom. Her hubby noticed that she was showing some symptoms somewhat to his own when he had first gotten sick years prior. She tested and it was positive. Therefore, she has rec'd it via sexual contact. Thier LLMD used her husband's sperm sample to check for spirchetes and they were in his semen. Oh, and the baby, she tested equiv. at age 3 but 6 months of meds, she is doing just fine at age 5 now. As for her parents, they both are still getting treatment.

My husband has been having bouts of arthritic joints often in the past year. I do ponder if he could have gotten Lyme from me. He had a pain in his shoulder for 2 months and the doc told him it was arthritis (he is 44). He is battling the same pain again now, months later it returned. He complains of days he "feels weak" and days of fatigue. My husband is very active and it scares me when he says he feels tired. He also has muscle spasms at the bottom of his heart so he takes heart meds for that. A heart cath. earlier this year had shown that, no known cause."

"after we had been married for a year and a half my hubby came back with an extreemly possitive test from Igenex.

I am the one with Lyme and he has never been bitten by a tick.

Therefore I really think he got it from me. A week after we were married I had to take him to the hospital....high fever, aching joints and muscles. He was really sick...they told him it was some kind of infection and sent him home with abx.

we didn't have sex before we were married...."


"I've been the picture of poor health for 10 years, my husband has been the picture of perfect health all this time. Neither one of us had known tick attachment. I was diagnosed last year.

I just found out yesterday that my husband's IGenex western blot was positive for bands 23-25, 31, 34, 39 and 41 on the IGM! He works 60 hours/week no problem, no fatigue, no pains, runs long distance, NEVER sick ... NOTHING to indicate he's suffering with lyme. I only tested positive on 2 IGM bands and I've had almost every lyme symptom in the book.

Folks, it's hard to tell by symptoms alone!!

We only had him tested because my 2 kids were positive (didn't think they'd be + either) but because of our 10 year history of "no protection" thought to get hubby tested just in case.

Do I think we got it from one another? I think so. I think I gave it to him. When they say some people are assymptomatic that is my husband! Get everyone tested now, why wait for symptoms or worsening symptoms?"

Rev Infect Dis. 1989 Sep-Oct;11 Suppl 6:S1460-9.

Epidemiology and clinical similarities of human spirochetal diseases.

Schmid GP.

Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.

Lyme disease, first identified in 1975, is the most recently recognized of the seven human spirochetal diseases; the evolving clinical picture of Lyme disease indicates it shares many features with the other diseases. These similarities are striking in view of the diverse epidemiology of the seven diseases, which are caused by Treponema species (spread by human-to-human contact) or Leptospira or Borrelia species (zoonoses). These similarities include the following: (1) skin or mucous membrane as portal of entry; (2) spirochetemia early in the course of disease, with wide dissemination through tissue and body fluid; and (3) one or more subsequent stages of disease, often with intervening latent periods. Lyme disease shares with many spirochetal diseases a tropism for skin and neurologic and cardiovascular manifestations, whereas chronic arthritis is unique to Lyme disease. These similarities and dissimilarities offer opportunities to discover which properties unique to the pathogenic spirochetes are responsible for clinical manifestations and suggest that certain clinical features of patients with spirochetal diseases other than Lyme disease may someday be recognized in patients with Lyme disease.

Publication Types:
Review
Review, Academic

PMID: 2682958 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Dr. Bach; International Scientific Conference
on Lyme Disease, April, 2001.

RECOVERY OF LYME SPIROCHETES BY PCR IN SEMEN SAMPLES OF PREVIOUSLY
DIAGNOSED LYME DISEASE PATIENTS
Dr. Gregory Bach, Do.O., P.C. 2415 North Broad Street, Colmar, PA 18915

CONCLUSION: With the initially impressive data, we feel the subsequent
statistical sudy on the sexual transmission of the Lyme spirochete will illuminate a
much broader sectrum of public health concerns associated with the disease than
the originally accepted tick borne vector.