What is really special with a Lyme disease infection is that the Borrelia spirochete is so hard to kill. This bacteria can stay in our body more than a decade.The answer why our immune system does not find it is because this bacteria is fooling our immune system totally.
NEWS 20.12.2004 The Borrelia spirochete charachteristic is
now mapped.
What
is really special with a Lyme disease infection is that the Borrelia
spirochete is so hard to kill. This bacteria can stay in our body
more than a decade. The answer why our immune system does not find it
is because this bacteria is fooling our immune system totally.
It
is medicine researcher Antti Alitalo who has been writing his doctors
thesis at the Helsinki University and defend it last Saturday. The
main idea of this thesis is to find out why Lyme disease can stay in
our body for several years. To say it in an easy way the cause is
that the borrelia spirochete is fooling out immune system. ** Antti
Alitalo has found in his research that the borrelia spirochete when
it is coming into our body start to produce a specific protein called
E. ** E is attracting a cells protection mechanism called factor H
that is a natural part of our cells** This is the reason why our
immune system can't recognize the borrelia spirochete and Lyme
disease can go on without any problems in our body.- The information
that the spirochete need to produce protein E it can find in small
dna molecules called plasmids, which can reproduce it selves and move
from cell to cell. Because of this mechanism the borrelia spirochete
will be full of different but very similar plasmids and can start to
develop their own protein production and relate it to different
immune systems.
Mr
Alitalo hopes to develop a vaccine
Antti Alitalo hope that his research and this new knowledge can
start to produce antibodies against protein E. Borrelia, or
Lyme-borrelios which is the real name for this disease is spread by
ticks and is very common in Arlandia (Finland) and can cause
neurological damages. Annika Orre
The bacteria that is causing Lyme disease here in Europe is
actually tree different spirochetes which are related to each other,
Borrelia burgdorferi, B. afzeli and B. garini and there are five
different types and the most famous bacteria is Borrelia Burgdorferi,
It can be a problem to separate these from each other and there is a
common name for them all, Borrelia Burgdorferi sensu lato. There is
only Borrelia Burgdorferi in USA but in Japan researchers has found
61 types of Borrelia Burgdorferi sensu lato.
Now when researchers has started to understand a lot of how this bacteria is working and can say that this is a very intelligent parasite organism with a lot of intelligence in its DNA. The borrelia spirochete has been on earth around 100 million years and during all these years it has collected intelligence to survive long term on earth. Spirochetes has infected some biting insects and ticks are the number one treat for us but a lot of other insects can be potential vectors. If professor Klinghardt is right in his research we can be infected by mosquito's in eastern Europe today. A question that we can ask us is when can our Swedish mosquito's be potential vectors for Lyme disease is German mosquito's already are?
Spirochetes are very good imitators and humans has been a host animal for these organisms since agent time and they have developed separate dna strings for humans. Borrelia spirochets are weaving the dns strucutre into the chromosomal structure which allows them to infect humans easily. In an easy language we can say that they have invented a software program that they can install to infect our own soft and hardware
The
spirochete that is called borrelia
Borrelia spirochets belong to the same family as Treponema pallidum (is giving us Syphilis) Both of these bacterias are long curly bacterias and has long tails and tricky to grow and reproduce
in a laboratory. Even today it is hard for doctors to grow and reproduce the syphilis bacteria Treponema pallidum. Because of this feature it is hard to do proper research of these bacterias(both syphilis and borrelia bacteria) and even harder to find diagnostic tests for doctors to find out if we actually has these bacterias in our bodies.
Borrelia
spirochetes are growing extremely slow and even slower than
Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is causing tuberculosis. This is the
reason according to researchers why this bacteria can give us
chronological diseases and be so notoriously hard to find in
laboratory tests.
The
Borrelia spirocheten exists in three distinct life forms
.
1. The spirochete which looks like a spiral (see picture above)
has a cell wall and when is it swimming inside our cells it can drill
its way through the cell wall and cross
the blood-brain barrier (swim around the brain and nervous system)
and hide in the synovial fluid.
By rotating around its axis it spins around like a corkscrew and screw its way through our cells. As long as the bacteria are in the spiral-shaped bacterium shape function common antibiotics is working well according to ILADS
2-3
Cyst form and L-form
Borrelia burgdorferi to the left and Treponema pallidum that causes syphilis to the right
Why
can Borrelia spirochetes transform into cystform and L-shape?
Under
certain special conditions when the bacterium feels threatened it can
roll together and cover it selves with a transparent mycus capsule.
This capsule protects the bacteria from different forms of antibiotics and the human antibodies. The borrelia spirchete can hide in this cystform during long-term periods in order to survive until the times will be great and it can roll out again and continue to drill its way through and destroy our cells. Ordinary antibiotics does not work when the bacterium is in cystform. For doctors who read this see your Norwegian colleagues' research Brorson O, Brorson which treatment with metronidazole for the cystforms. See here how a borrelia spirochete will go from the spiral form over to the cyst form.