by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12866-019-1514-7 Comment; We’re digging deep. Looking into what species live in the GI tract of the ticks, finding that the differences are more based on sex than geography in specimens collected in TX...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asma/amhp/2019/00000090/00000007/art00012;jsessionid=40226hmkdihog.x-ic-live-03 Comment; It’s not surprising that tick-borne illnesses are missed. Spirochetes can have so many different presentations in disease–not to...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488351/ Comment; Complex Chronic Illnesses can have bizarre presentations as can tick-borne illnesses in general. I wouldn’t have predicted this association, but it makes some sense… Raminder Kaur Khangura,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2019.00179/full Comment; Evolving progress in proteomics may provide a key means of diagnosing the evasive Borrelia genus. Kathryn J. Pflughoeft1,2, Michael Mash1,2, Nicole R. Hasenkampf3, Mary B....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://iai.asm.org/content/87/7/e00164-19 Comment; Wouldn’t it be great if we could find the genetic/epigenetic system responsible for the rabbit’s production of the antigenically variable VlsE protein antibody. Maliha Batool, Andrew E....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2019/02/25/jrheum.180775 Comment; Sad that these kids have such bad outcomes. We need better dissemination of the knowledge of improved antibiotic regimens. Daniel B. Horton, Alysha J. Taxter, Amy L. Davidow, Brandt...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/06/07/730443421/asias-longhorned-tick-takes-its-first-documented-bite-in-the-u-s Comment; Just what we need, if we don’t have enough North American ticks. Jet travel does this! More disease risk, more people...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiz119/5490825?redirectedFrom=fulltext Comment; A new drug for an indolent parasite that causes a significant disease burden and is historically hard to treat, and able to be given by...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvec.12346 Comment; Further documentation that the tick responsible for Lyme is expanding it’s territory, putting more people at risk. Sarah C. KuchinskyHannah L. ElliottRebekah T. TaylorFirst published: 23...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/11/1939/htm Comment; Lyme is a very complex disease, difficult to diagnose & treat. Busy clinicians do not have time to spend hours poring over literature, we need accurate, unbiased information, non-controversial articles so we...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvec.12334 Comment; Not good; Lyme-carrying ticks are now in OK, formerly they were not really habitating that area–they are spreading across the country jeopardizing an ever-larger population of people. Small MM,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hUoFqNfGL6lxNZ7lOl8opKxEqJwvxxPD/view?usp=sharing Comment; Myers’ cocktails are amazing-I speak from personal experience. I can smell vitamins during the infusion the blood levels of them are so high. Within 12-24 hours I have...
