taniaaust1
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I'd never seen or heard anyone on these before
http://www.rense.com/health3/paracfs.htm
does anyone know anything more on this?
http://www.rense.com/health3/paracfs.htm
Dr. Vincent Marinkovich, here in Redwood City, California. He was treating a CFS patient we thought might have a roundworm infection. The patient had a low grade eosinophilia and some unusual rashes on the torso that suggested the possibility of threadworm disease. Antibody tests and stool tests were negative. I thought about this for a while and I know that some chronic parasites migrate between the digestive tract and the respiratory tract and some of them are coughed up in sputum. So I looked at the sputum and that's where I found it. I called the new parasite "Cryptostrongylus pulmoni", that's a provisional name and it means "the hidden lung worm
Dr. Klapow It definitely is, Roger. It's very difficult to find. And I hope other people will start looking for it. In fact, I've put together some material that I think can help them.
Dr. Mazlen You recently completed a small blinded study in cooperation with a small number of CFS doctors including Dr. Anthony Komaroff in Harvard. You're now doing a larger blinded trial and you're also trying to develop a clinical test for the parasite.
Dr. Klapow Yes, I find the parasites in about 40% of three-day sputum samples from CFS patients. However, I have to tell you that yields are very low. In fact, they're so low that I think I'm probably missing as many positive patients as I'm finding. The problem here is that over 80% of the positives I get are represented by only one identifiable specimen. So just by chance it looks like I'm missing a fairly high percentage.
does anyone know anything more on this?