Very interesting article about the history of L-forms & how it causes chronic
diseases. Some snippets below but much larger article at
http://bacteriality.com/2007/08/18/history/
In 1941, German scientist Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel began to study the L form at
the Lister Institute in England. A meticulous lab worker, Klieneberger-Nobel,
perfected the method of growing the pathogens on serum (blood) agar.
After growing colonies of the bacterium Streptobacillus monliforme she confirmed
that several of the pathogens in her Petri dish did indeed lack cell walls. She
named the wall-less variants L-forms after the Lister Institute where she
worked. In the years that followed she studied other species of L-forms and
published several papers describing their characteristics and behavior. She once
said that "the L-form is an entity of its own as different from bacteria as the
tadpole from the frog."
Mattman studied patients with Tuberculosis and found that in every patient
tested, the blood was saturated with a variety of L-forms.
She identified two different species of L-form bacteria in patients with
Parkinson's Disease. The L- form species of Borrellia burgdoferi was detected in
patients with Lyme disease. She cultured serum from forty patients with multiple
sclerosis and found a different species of the borrelia L-form present in her
samples. Soon after, she detected Chlamydia pneumonia in the blood of patients
who had suffered a pulmonary thrombosis. She also found bacteria that resembled
M. tuberculosis in the blood of patients with the lung disease sarcoidosis.
In the end, Mattman detected dozens of species of L-form bacteria and was able
to culture these wall-less forms of bacteria from the blood samples of patients
with over 20 incurable illnesses. She published numerous papers throughout her
career and in authored an entire medical textbook in which she details her
findings.
A team of researchers and doctors in the United Kingdom are currently studying
the L-form in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The microbiology
team, lead by CFS clinician Dr. Andy Wright has detected L-forms in every single
one of the CFS patients they have tested (about 600 to date).
Wright has developed a method of taking pinprick blood (usually from the ear)
and allowing it to degrade for 6-36 hours. The process causes the L-form
bacteria to break out of the cells and they can subsequently be observed with a
dark field microscope. The bacteria can be stained with fluorescent dye. If the
L-forms are alive they will stain green, while dying/dead L-forms stain orange.
Wright has created several videos of L-forms under the microscope in which the
pathogens can be seen quite clearly.
In the videos, the bacteria often lengthen into long filamental forms that look
thin and snakelike. They can be seen weaving in between infected cells.
Sometimes "giant" L-forms, which are more rectangular in shape, begin to grow
inside the cells.
Danish researcher Marie Kroun has also taken several videos of L-form bacteria
under a high-resolution microscope.
(Wright & Kroun were both Lyme sufferers...) Lida Mattman is one of the few
scientists who figured out how to cultivate spiros in test tubes & published the
book Stealth Pathogens - sadly she has now passed away..
diseases. Some snippets below but much larger article at
http://bacteriality.com/2007/08/18/history/
In 1941, German scientist Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel began to study the L form at
the Lister Institute in England. A meticulous lab worker, Klieneberger-Nobel,
perfected the method of growing the pathogens on serum (blood) agar.
After growing colonies of the bacterium Streptobacillus monliforme she confirmed
that several of the pathogens in her Petri dish did indeed lack cell walls. She
named the wall-less variants L-forms after the Lister Institute where she
worked. In the years that followed she studied other species of L-forms and
published several papers describing their characteristics and behavior. She once
said that "the L-form is an entity of its own as different from bacteria as the
tadpole from the frog."
Mattman studied patients with Tuberculosis and found that in every patient
tested, the blood was saturated with a variety of L-forms.
She identified two different species of L-form bacteria in patients with
Parkinson's Disease. The L- form species of Borrellia burgdoferi was detected in
patients with Lyme disease. She cultured serum from forty patients with multiple
sclerosis and found a different species of the borrelia L-form present in her
samples. Soon after, she detected Chlamydia pneumonia in the blood of patients
who had suffered a pulmonary thrombosis. She also found bacteria that resembled
M. tuberculosis in the blood of patients with the lung disease sarcoidosis.
In the end, Mattman detected dozens of species of L-form bacteria and was able
to culture these wall-less forms of bacteria from the blood samples of patients
with over 20 incurable illnesses. She published numerous papers throughout her
career and in authored an entire medical textbook in which she details her
findings.
A team of researchers and doctors in the United Kingdom are currently studying
the L-form in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The microbiology
team, lead by CFS clinician Dr. Andy Wright has detected L-forms in every single
one of the CFS patients they have tested (about 600 to date).
Wright has developed a method of taking pinprick blood (usually from the ear)
and allowing it to degrade for 6-36 hours. The process causes the L-form
bacteria to break out of the cells and they can subsequently be observed with a
dark field microscope. The bacteria can be stained with fluorescent dye. If the
L-forms are alive they will stain green, while dying/dead L-forms stain orange.
Wright has created several videos of L-forms under the microscope in which the
pathogens can be seen quite clearly.
In the videos, the bacteria often lengthen into long filamental forms that look
thin and snakelike. They can be seen weaving in between infected cells.
Sometimes "giant" L-forms, which are more rectangular in shape, begin to grow
inside the cells.
Danish researcher Marie Kroun has also taken several videos of L-form bacteria
under a high-resolution microscope.
(Wright & Kroun were both Lyme sufferers...) Lida Mattman is one of the few
scientists who figured out how to cultivate spiros in test tubes & published the
book Stealth Pathogens - sadly she has now passed away..
