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Post by notime2work on Feb 9, 2007 18:15:25 GMT -5
Ann Agric Environ Med. 2006 ;13 (2):345-8 17199258 Isolation of Borrelia afzelii from overwintering Culex pipiens biotype molestus mosquitoes. Alena Zakovska , Lucie Capkova , Omar Sery , Jiri Halouzka , Milos Dendis
A total of 662 samples (winter period: 469; summer period: 193 specimens) of female mosquitoes of the genus Culex, Aedes and Anopheles were collected during the period March 2000-April 2001 from the locality of Vysoke Myto (Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic). They were examined by dark field microscopy for the presence of spirochetes. The motile spirochetes were observed in 4.2 % of all species of investigated mosquitoes. One spirochetal strain out of the 8 isolation attempts (BRZ14) was obtained (cultivation rate was 12.5 %) and the spirochetal strain was then successfully cultivated and identified using PCR for the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., and subsequently with the RFLP as genomospecies Borrelia afzelii. This strain was derived from overwintering Culex (Culex) pipiens biotype molestus female mosquitoe. This is apparently one of the sporadic cases of the occurrence of pathogenic borreliae in haematophagous arthropods, other than Ixodes ricinus complex ticks.
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Post by ruth on Feb 9, 2007 21:22:27 GMT -5
WOW. ... does genomospecies mean the frankenstein-type?
so Bb. was altered in the lab and a species emerged called B.afzelii?
is it european origin because it was altered there, and/or released there?
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Post by notime2work on Feb 10, 2007 13:33:12 GMT -5
I'm not sure exactly what all this means, but there are some that believe only ticks can carry the Bb.
I have read, but don't have the reference handy, that there are more than 100 different strains of Bb. That is why it can be next to impossible to get an accurate test result. Evidently, there are different variations in different parts of the world.
And, yes, some of these could be altered/created strains. The book "Lab 257" is a pretty shocking expose of biowarfare agents that were created off the east coast on Plum Island.
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Post by questionhair on Mar 2, 2007 16:01:50 GMT -5
Here's mention of different strains, from Melissa Kaplan's website on Lyme Disease: " . . . TESTING . . . Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), like other tick-borne organisms, does not have a single, static appearance and/or chemical signature. It not only changes throughout its life cycle, it has a bunch of genes that seem to do nothing but randomly alter its outer surface proteins (called OSP) so as to evade the immune system's fighters - and not coincidentally evade recognition on tests. There are 300+ known strains of Bb around the world, and half dozen known types. When you add the number of strains + types + hundreds of different shifting OSP combinations + the "regular" forms + L-forms (even more shapes and forms that each Bb can adopt throughout its life), there is as yet no existing test that can look for all of these at one time. Or 6 times. Or however many times. So, one may meet all the clinical criteria for Lyme yet keep coming up with negative test results. The test alone cannot be used to determine whether or not the patient has Lyme. . . " www.anapsid.org/lyme/index.html
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Post by ruth on Mar 4, 2007 18:21:05 GMT -5
AND WHERE DID ALL THESE DIFFERENT STRAINS COME FROM?
START LISTING THE LABS OF RELEASE.
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