As the author of the 2008 #1 best-selling international hematology book that is the only blood study guide helping microbiologists and pathology experts to identify babesia, I would like to share some balanced pearls of my seven books and 26 years working with this single-celled parasite.
First. 49/50 of my positive babesia patients have a negative FISH.
I was confused that an actively ill patient with multiple tick-borne infections posted publicly that only the IGeneX FISH has worth in diagnosis.
The poster is not one of the very small MD world experts, who are well known.
The IGeneX FISH is vividly pictured in my “A Laboratory Guide to Human Babesia Hematology Forms” due to the generosity of Dr Shah, the lab director. The black and white and red images are stunning. These are very ill people in these FISH samples. They do not need immediate transfusions like other patients but have high numbers of red blood cells filled with single-celled parasites–babesia.
When you are killing babesia many ways, such as options in my 2006 definitive babesia textbook, a FISH will often become negative in months. If you avoid the dated old treatments from past decades. Microbiologists can find babesia inside red blood cells, but the FISH will often become negative. Causing some smart Lyme doctors to say they are cured of babesia. I end up treating these babesia “cured” patients and find babesia DNA and red cells with some babesia.
One disaster happening constantly with “LL MDs” is ignorance in treating babesia and bartonella. I have published trailblazing science on both infections but made some errors esp. on bartonella. That was when the most useful book was six years after mine.
The point? I hope I am not being superior when doctors are making my same or similar errors 17–20 years later. Sadly, they seem too busy to read and save many years redoing older research. But patients are severely hurt and occ. die by errors such as:
*THE FISH IS ONLY ACCEPTABLE BABESIA TEST
*WHEN YOUR FISH BECOMES NEGATIVE YOU ARE CURED.
There is no single physician or researcher who is master of all knowledge in these diverse infections.