This is a video for every lyme patient, every M.E. patient, every doctor, lyme specialist, scientist, and loved ones of people suffering
Please watch to the end, this is really important to me.
More needs to be done. It will only happen if we make it happen
The current CDC and NHS stance is that lyme bacteria most likely cannot persist once treated with antibiotics, and that all the testing is adequate
For your ease here are some links to the relevant studies which show lyme can suppress antibodies, that tests are ineffective, and how lyme can survive after courses of antibiotics
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26...
"Antibiotic therapy may abrogate the antibody response to the infection as shown in our patients. B. burgdorferi may persist as shown by positive culture in MKP-medium; patients may have subclinical or clinical disease without diagnostic antibody titers to B. burgdorferi. We conclude that early stage of the disease as well as chronic Lyme disease with persistence of B. burgdorferi after antibiotic therapy cannot be excluded when the serum is negative for antibodies against B. burgdorferi."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19...
In one patient Borrelia burgdorferi was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) 7.5 months after ceftriaxone therapy
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29...
")A 54-year-old man had intermittent evening fever, arthralgia, transient erythematous macular eruption on the skin, and splenomegaly of two year's duration. Immunofluorescence tests for Borrelia burgdorferi serum antibodies had positive results, but G-penicillin treatment was ineffective. Splenectomy with lymph node biopsy was performed to rule out lymphoproliferative disorders. Borrelia-like spirochetes were identified histologically in the spleen; this finding was consistent with persistence of B. burgdorferi organisms in inner organs in chronic Lyme disease."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16...
If TLR5 is downregulated then the immune system has a difficult time creating antibodies against the bacterial flagella .
and again
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
"The extensive antigentic shifting of B burgdoferi allows evasion of immune response within even a single host individual."
On pet websites it is common knowledge that lyme can persist after courses of antibiotics and so why is it so out of the questions for it to do so in humans?
www.peteducation.com/article.c...
Lyme persistence shown here in monkeys following antibiotic treatment
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
This paper demonstrating how the immune system can be left with lasting damage even after the initial causitive factor is removed
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26...
"How infection can persist and even amplify even when infections have cleared or when biotoxin exposure has ceased"
There are countless more papers, if you look, you will find them. The medical community needs to be looking at them. Lyme doctors need to be looking at them. Knowledge is power so study these, because if you're sick, your life does depend on it.