The study experts report:
1. “Borrelia burgdorferi [traditional Lyme disease]develops morphological variants [forms] under stress conditions….”
2. They examined a Lyme biofilm colony. And also the corkscrew active form and round body form. [Cysts with very slow metabolism which I call “nuts.”]
3. Some of these “variant forms were not only more tolerant to the current Lyme antibiotics but also caused more severe arthritis in mice than the log phase [fast growing] spirochete [corkscrew] form.”
4. They “propose to divide the persistent Lyme disease into two categories:
a) “…early development of persistent disease from inoculation with persister/biofilm at the beginning of infection introduced by tick bites…”
b) late development of persistent disease due to initial infection not being diagnosed or treated in time such that the infection develops into late persistent disease, or Type II persistent disease. Importantly, we show that the murine infection caused by LOG could be eradicated by ceftriaxone whereas the persistent infection established with MC could not be eradicated by doxycycline (Doxy), ceftriaxone (CefT), or vancomycin (Van), or Doxy+CefT or Van+CefT…”
c) “but could only be eradicated by the persister drug combination daptomycin+doxycycline+ceftriaxone.”
Feng J, Li T, Yee R, Yuan Y, Bai C, Cai M, Shi W, Embers M, Brayton C, Saeki H, Gabrielson K, Zhang Y. Stationary phase persister/biofilm microcolony of Borrelia burgdorferi causes more severe disease in a mouse model of Lyme arthritis: implications for understanding persistence, Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), and treatment failure. Discov Med. 2019 Mar;27(148):125-138. PMID: 30946803.
If you are a doctor of medicine (MD or DO) I will not try to take your license if you disagree with me. Science requires healthy debate and the presence of different, even opposing views. One aspect of being a physician, is after nine years it is assumed you can think medically, and do not simply surrender your positions to what the “experts” suggest. The NAZI’s had very influencial MDs and PhDs aid in facilitation, and a doctorate of medicine with 4-5 further years of training does not have to follow the “mob of doctors.” Together we have been wrong repeatedly.
Profound Narcissists and those with Sociopath traits who despise and hate doctors of medicine who hold different opinions, and are unlearned in the history of medicine which constantly shows, in different areas or illnesses, that most of use were wrong at times, and that is certainly true of the “experts” on an illness. In the areas of Lyme disease, Tick-Borne Relapsing fever, Bartonella, and Babesia, no one has read the complete research on all of these common serious infections. I study and research at least 40 hours every week. And I learn new information daily.
Humility is the foundation of a constantly improving medicine.