HARD SCIENCE ON LYME: Straubinger’s New Study Shows How Lyme Bacteria survives – “A recent research paper by Straubinger confirms that the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), is capable of transforming itself from a spirochetal form (that looks like a cork screw shaped worm) to a spherical shape when it encounters unfavorable conditions. The study is important because it confirms earlier work by Brorson on the ability of Bb to convert to a spherical shape under adversity and convert back to a spirochete when conditions for survival improved. This ability to convert is thought to protect Bb from the body’s immune system as well as help protect it from antibiotics. These two mechanisms may be instrumental in the ability of Bb to persist in patients. The study also found that intact RNA, which is essential to reproduction, was able to survive the transformation. This latter finding dispels the argument that the spherical form of Bb is merely an artifact or debris from a dead organism.” HARD SCIENCE ON LYME: Straubinger’s New Study Shows How Lyme Bacteria survives - LymeDisease.org
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:54:48 +0000