Hi Suebe,
Hope you are doing better!
Hey- what is Mary's mouthwash?
To answer your question about Band 41 KdA
Back in the day, Allen Steere (then at Yale) wrote a paper on Lyme Disease. Below is the
original abstract- in subsequent abstract/s, Steere changed the info.
At the time of the writing of the abstract below- Steere had been working with
Lyme for 11 years- the disease started in Lyme, Ct in 1975 and was first noticed
as such by 2 women- Moms who noticed that nearly 40 kids with arthritis in one
neighborhood was unusual.
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=423723&blobtype=pdfAntigens of Borrella burgdorferi Recognized during Lyme Disease
Appearance of a New Immunoglobulin M Response and Expansion of the
Immunoglobulin G Response Late in the Illness
Joseph E. Craft, Duncan K. Fischer, Grant T. Shimamoto, and Allen C. Steere
Departments ofInternal Medicine and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
Yale University School ofMedicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510
Fair use
Excerpt:
Abstract
Using immunoblots, we identified proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi
bound by IgM and IgG antibodies during Lyme disease. In 12
patients with early disease alone, both the IgM and IgG responses
were restricted primarily to a 41-kD antigen. This limited response
disappeared within several months. In contrast, among
six patients with prolonged illness, the IgM response to the 41-
kD protein sometimes persisted for months to years, and late in
the illness during arthritis, a new IgM response sometimes developed
to a 34-kD component of the organism. The IgG response
in these patients appeared in a characteristic sequential pattern
over months to years to as many as 11 spirochetal antigens. The
appearance of a new IgM response and the expansion of the IgG
response late in the illness, and the lack of such responses in
patients with early disease alone, suggest that B. burgdorferi
remains alive throughout the illness.
end
Steere had made the statement- 1986 that people who don't have syphilis- and have a
postitive band 41- have LYME.
According to Allen Steere and the CT Ag Station, perform only a Western Blot (NEVER and ELISA), and if you have band 41 and no periodontal disease, syphilis, or obvious arthritis, you have Lyme Disease.
He went on to say:
The distinction is especially important because the Lyme disease bacterium has since been discovered to regulate the expression of most of its surface proteins in a differential fashion, varying throughout infection according to stage, tissue type, temperature, and even dissolved oxygen level. Flagellin, however — the key protein in question at 41 KdA — is constitutionally {always} expressed, being absolutely necessary for borrelia survival at any stage of infection. Thus, in many ways it is the most important indicator of exposure or infection, latent or active.Love to you too, Suebe,
Prayers for your healing
Jill