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Post by skyship on Mar 9, 2010 14:28:13 GMT -5
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Post by lilsissy on Mar 9, 2010 23:29:15 GMT -5
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Post by pocoloco on Mar 11, 2010 17:29:38 GMT -5
In this interview Jan suggested something very interesting. That the lesions of Morgellons patients apparently have not been known to become otherwise infected is well doccumented. I believe her observation is: Dictyostelium Discoideum present in these lesions may be in a stage of its pleomorphic development where it is very hungry!
Several of us, including Aqt, have photographed Dictyo'-like artifacts happily growing downward into the lesions from pseudo-scabs.
I believe two of us at MRG have hit upon a remedy for external treatment of Dictyo'; a material used in agriculture.
Is anyone aware of something that is effective and safe for internal use? Are Dictyo' infections in humans known and reported in the literature? Anyones help in this area of research will be appreciated; there just aren't enough hours in the day!!!
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Post by aqt on Mar 12, 2010 7:30:30 GMT -5
Dictyostelium discoideum is a molecularly amenable host model system for several human pathogens, including Legionella pneumophila, Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium marinum, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Cryptococcus neoformans. Dictyostelium wild-type cells have proven useful in screening and identifying numerous bacterial und fungal virulence factors. Moreover, Dictyostelium mutant cells can be used to identify genetic host determinants of susceptibility and resistance to infections. Marker genes such as the green fluorescence protein (GFP) gene allow the in vivo monitoring of infection-relevant host factors. Here, we present methods that have already contributed to the deciphering of important aspects of the Dictyostelium-Legionella interaction. Moreover, the described phagocytosis assay, infection assay, and the confocal in vivo monitoring of GFP-tagged host factors can easily be adapted to other host-pathogen interactions. Human infections occur at 37C, but Dictyostelium does not survive tempera- tures above 27C. UNLESS, OF COURSE, IT IS A GENETICALLY MODIFIED STRAIN www.springerlink.com/content/g2843443847u2130/
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