HUH?
In 1990 and 1991 these two species, henselae and quintana, were discovered. Before that we learned only of the 1920s species in Peru mountains that kill you.
We were not useless in microbiology in the 1960s, 1970s, and1980s. Why was it missed by a century? It has immense stealth. It literally turns off the bacterial siren on the body [TNF-alpha]. And it shoots the super anti-inflammatory IL-10 very high to drop the body’s alertness.
And it creates a prednisone-like effect that is hard to describe, but roughly, it is “as if” a micro amount of prednisone is around these bacteria. So your immune system senses nothing.
GALAXY DIAGNOSTICS SHOWS ITS SUPER ELITE TESTING BEYOND ALL LARGE COMMERCIAL LABS
This report describes the development, optimization, and validation of a ddPCR assay for the detection of Bartonella spp. [ddPCR is beyond all commercial labs. Why is it unknown by infection doctors? Maybe because reading 100 articles does not make you a top Bartonella teaching physician].
The Bartonella spp. ddPCR assay was developed based upon previously published TaqMan-based qPCR assays that can amplify DNA of over 25 Bartonella spp. [species]
The Bartonella spp. ddPCR assay detected 16 species/strains….
1. B. henselae
2. B. quintana
3. B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii (genotypes I, II, III and IV)
4. B. vinsonii subsp. vinsonii
5. B. melophagi
6. B. volans
7. B. monaki
8. B. alsatica
9. B. bovis
10 B. elizabethae
11. B. clarridgeiae
12. B. koehlerae.
Notice this is not merely two species? Then why do the self-appointed “experts” say only two species matter?
THIS MEANS IN MY 27 YEARS OF TREATING ONLY TWO SPECIES MATTERED? WRONG!
Maggi RG, Richardson T, Breitschwerdt EB, Miller JC. Development and validation of a droplet digital PCR assay for the detection and quantification of Bartonella species within human clinical samples. J Microbiol Methods. 2020 Sep;176:106022. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2020.106022. Epub 2020 Aug 11. PMID: 32795640.