The mice are self-poisoning and poisoning their babies- says CDC's Bioweapons Lab at UCal Irvine I mean Davis.

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Subject: Re: [SpinLyme] Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi Following Antibiotic Treatment in Mice

Date: Mar 4, 2008 3:26 PM

Well, that settles it for once and for all. The mouse version of Munchausen's is a scientifically verifiable outcome of Lyme: Mouse-hausens. Or is it Munchmice? http://www.actionlyme.org/MUNCHAUSENS.htm These mice need to be treated with Paxil to overcome these strange desire to act like sex-deprived New Englander female humans, or soap opera writers, or They Who Place Ticks on Sleeping Children: http://www.actionlyme.org/MCSWEEGAN_AND_MUNCHAUSENS.htm At last! All settled, then, eh? Kathleen M. Dickson -----Original Message----- >From: >Sent: Mar 4, 2008 3:10 PM >To: SpinLyme@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [SpinLyme] Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi Following Antibiotic Treatment in Mice > http://aac.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/AAC.01050-07v1

> >AAC Accepts, published online ahead of print on 3 March 2008 > >Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. doi:10.1128/AAC.01050-07 >Copyright (c) 2008, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. > > >Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi Following Antibiotic Treatment in Mice >Emir Hodzic, Sunlian Feng, Kevin Holden, Kimberly J. Freet, and Stephen W. Barthold* >Center for Comparative Medicine, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 > > > >* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: swbarthold@ucdavis.edu . > >The effectiveness of antibiotic treatment was examined in a mouse model of Lyme borreliosis. Mice were treated with ceftriaxone or saline for one month, commencing during the early (3 weeks) or chronic (4 months) stages of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi. Tissues from mice were tested for infection by culture, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), xenodiagnosis, and transplantation of allografts at 1 and 3 months after completion of treatment. In addition, tissues were examined for spirochetes by immunohistochemistry. In contrast to saline-treated mice, mice treated with antibiotic were consistently culture-negative, but tissues from some of the mice remained PCR-positive, and spirochetes could be visualized in collagen-rich tissues. Furthermore, when some of the antibiotic treated mice were fed upon by Ixodes scapularis ticks (xenodiagnosis), spirochetes were acquired by the ticks, based upon PCR, and ticks from those cohorts transmitted spirochetes to naïve SCID mice, which became PCR-positive, but culture-negative. Results indicated that following antibiotic treatment, mice remained infected with non-dividing but infectious spirochetes, particularly when antibiotic treatment was commenced during the chronic stage of infection. > > > >