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STREP, BARTONELLA, LYME, MYCOPLASMA, AND OTHERS PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) is a clinical diagnosis, meaning there is no single blood test that can definitively “prove” or “disprove” the condition. Instead, doctors use blood tests to look for infectious triggers, assess immune system function, and rule out other medical issues. Common blood tests ordered during a PANS workup include: 1. Testing for Infectious

Just over a century ago, an emerging disease plagued almost a million frontline troops during World War I, rendering them unfit for duty for months at a time. The disease became known as “trench fever,” and it was subsequently shown to be caused by the louse-borne bacterium now known as Bartonella quintana Interestingly, at that time many soldiers affected by

Our 2007 psychiatry pioneering Bartonella research paper reports “at least eight species of Bartonella have been recognized as causing infective endocarditis in humans” including: B. quintana B. henselae B. elizabethae B. vinsonii B. koehlerae B. clarridgeiae B. washoensis B. alsatica Schaller JL, Burkland GA, Langhoff PJ. Do bartonella infections cause agitation, panic disorder, and treatment-resistant depression? MedGenMed. 2007 Sep 13;9(3):54.