Also found at high levels in a range of people with rheumatological symptoms:
http://medmonthly.com/2012/07/bartonella-a-new-frontier-in-chronic-disease/
http://medmonthly.com/2012/07/bartonella-a-new-frontier-in-chronic-disease/
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DML recently - since collaboration with a veterinary insitute/lab - found a lot of people with ME to have a Bartonella infection (not Henselae but another one). If i recall well, he has found allready 400 patiënts to have this infection.
Hi Legolas,
how it goes with avelox (moxifloxacin) and rifampicin? Dose?
You feel something?
Thanks, C
Routine national labs offer testing for only 2 species, but at least 9 have been discovered as human infections within the last 15 years.
In the last 15 years, 9 Bartonella bacteria have been identified that are known to infect humans: B henselae, B elizabethae, B grahamii, B vinsonii subsp. arupensis, B vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii, B grahamii, B washoensis, and, more recently, B koehlerae and B rochalimae.
Currently, the largest national laboratories offer tests for only 2 species (B quintana and B henselae).
This is an interesting paper on how Bartonella may be linked to agitation, panic disorder, and treatment-resistant depression.
A psychiatrist diagnosed him as having bipolar disorder, despite the fact that he had no genetic history or any previous history of depression or mania.