Streptococcal disease was first described by Hippocrates. Streptococcus is a gram positive bacteria, for which the first vector is believed to have been soil. Streptococcus starts as an extracellular pathogen, covered in abnormal proteins to protect the pathogen from attack by the immune system. During the immune system attack against the pathogen, debris from the pathogen and the abnormal proteins can become intracellular. Different types of streptococcus may damage different organs (heart, kidney, skin, brain, etc.), and/or have varying levels…..
The CDC reports infections with Streptococcus pneumoniae account for more deaths than any other cause worldwide; and are the leading global cause of pneumonia mortality. S pneumoniae is also the most common cause of bacteremia, bacterial meningitis, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), and otitis media; and is an important cause of endocarditis, osteomyelitis, peritonitis, septic arthritis, and sinusitis. The type of strep and duration of acute infection may determine the organs most vulnerable to attack, such as the heart, kidney and/or skin……
“The longer you’re in a field, the harder it is to perceive new truths. Your mind is biased toward refining what you’re already doing instead of exploring fresh terrain.” James Clear The causes of chronic disease can seldom be found in one specialty alone: Discovery requires a new paradigm for understanding and diagnosing infectious causes of chronic disease. Chronic disease is a long and evolving process, which can create new symptoms and findings during that evolving process, leading a…..
Blood findings give clues to chronic infection; however, some providers may dismiss or ignore abnormal findings as unimportant or not interpretable. Some doctors assert a chlamydia IgM represents a current infection and a chlamydia IgA represents past infection; and ignore the chlamydia IgG. Chronic intracellular chlamydia is never completely “in the past”, and the fact an IgM is on the blood test, and is abnormally high, is an important clue to a chronic infection hiding silently within, and evolving into…..
In medical practice, Dr. Merchant followed the principle of diagnose what you can and treat what you can diagnose, for over forty years. Repeated diagnosis of chronic infection in a variety of chronic diseases and successful treatment outcomes revealed that chronic infections cause chronic disease. Diagnoses of chronic infections and successful treatment outcomes provided important insights into the causes of chronic diseases, the consequences of having a chronic infection, and the relationships and commonalities between chronic diseases, which is rarely…..
Pathogens can be transmitted from animal-to-animal and across animal species. Pathogens can be transmitted from a person-to-animal and animal-to-person, causing similar diseases in the person and animal. The evidence strongly suggests infectious pathogens are a cause of many chronic diseases. The high rate of parvovirus in cancer patients is concerning. Pet dogs owned by lupus patients are at a higher risk of developing.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3362544/#__sec11title
PANDAS is an acronym for a sudden onset mental disorder in children, which develops after an acute strep infection. Children may develop sudden onset obsessions, compulsions, OCD, anxiety, lability, motor or vocal tics, enuresis, deterioration in handwriting, etc. It is reasonable to believe adults can also get acute strep, and similarly develop PANDAS, although little research has been done on adults with problem behaviors or a mental health diagnosis. Strep has as many as 75 variants, some more virulent than…..
Research from Johns Hopkins University provides further evidence vaccines can provide some cross-protection against covid19. Patients who received the BCG vaccine had cross-protection against covid19; and the MMR and polio vaccines have also been shown to provide some cross-protection. The vaccination status of seriously ill covid19 patients, patients who contracted covid19 and did not become seriously ill, and patients who did not contract covid19, is important in understanding covid19. The vaccination status of pediatric patients too young for the…..
Re-post from 2/15/19 Mental illness is a medical illness! A patient with intractable schizophrenia developed a blood cancer, and received a bone marrow transplant from a brother, who did not have schizophrenia—the patient recovered from schizophrenia, and years later had no symptoms of schizophrenia and did not require any psychiatric medications. A second patient with leukemia, who had no mental illness, received a bone marrow transplant from a schizophrenic brother, and the patient developed schizophrenia. In a third scenario, a…..
Many scientists over the years have found an association between cat ownership as a child and chronic diseases as an adult. Scientific findings have been inconsistent, in part because the studies do not consider critical factors such as if and when toxoplasmosis was acquired by a child. The risk of toxoplasmosis transmission to humans is greatest shortly after the cat/kitten acquires toxoplasmosis; in feral cats; when litter boxes are used indoors; and when litter boxes are not cleaned daily. Kittens…..
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