False Claims Act à Allen Steere’s 1993 blood testing standard for Lyme is completely bogus. 

 

Therefore, all the US grants that were paid out upon that bogus standard, such as Klempner’s chronic Lyme “study,” were also false claims.  The validity of the Yale Lyme vaccine qualification was a false claim, and they obviously knew it, since this is their earlier VALID diagnostic test.

 

The CDC's claim that they have a valid test for Lyme is 100% FALSE.

 

 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act     <--- False Claims Act

 

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                                                                                                                                                27 Oct 2005

 

AAG John Tucker

860-808-5590

55 Elm, Hartford, 06106                                     VALIDATION OF YALE’S LYME TEST

 

 

Dear Mr. Tucker-

 

 

Please take this to your staff patent attorneys to confirm.

 

Verify independently that this is the text of the Yale patent US # 5, 618, 533

 

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This means they have the ability to diagnose Lyme (borreliosis) accurately and early but they chose not to because they chose to make more money on a bogus vaccine instead.

 

The "CLAIM" of the patent, if you look at it, is a fragment of DNA code, which means no one can use this unless licensed by Yale- which means they have a monopoly on testing and they prefer we don't have it available to us. 

 

Yale’s own validation is written within the claim of this patent 5, 618,533 and is well-described.

 

 

UCONN’s Henry Feder tested the OspA vaccine on children in Europe when he knew that would do them no good and in fact, was harmful.  This vaccine never should have gone to human trials.

 

Yale has an early and accurate test for Lyme, but did not use it, when all agree that early treatment gives better patient results. 

 

This is CT’s disease. 

 

We have children in CT.

 

Lyme borreliae can infect the brain and does in 2/3 of the cases (Dattwyler published data). 

 

It kind of makes sense to detect Lyme as early as possible to prevent this infection from reaching the brain and causing brain damage to children.

 

The State’s resistance to this concept is unforgivably incompetent, abusive, and technically is child abuse and medical neglect.

 

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The Yale Flagellin Patent Validation is right in the text of the patent:

 

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/

netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5618533.WKU.&OS=PN/5618533&RS=PN/5618533

 

 

“The sera we used for these studies were obtained from Lyme disease patients, most of whom were seen at the Lyme disease clinic of the Department of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine. All patients tested serologically positive on a standard ELISA test using whole sonicated B. burgdorferi as antigen. In FIG. 3, patients 5, 8, 16 and 17 had ECM. Patients 2, 4-8, and 10-11 had chronic arthritis of greater than 6 months duration, patient 14 had peripheral neuritis, patient 16 had Bell's Palsey, patient 17 had severe headache and patient 18 had encephalopathy. Patients 1, 3, 9, 12-13 and 15 had arthritis.

 

As can be seen from FIG. 3, a homogeneous response was observed for most patient sera. Overlapping fragments A and B and fragment D define regions of generally low reactivity. In contrast, seventeen of 18 patient's sera react strongly to the overlapping fragments E, F, and G. Fragments F and G are bound to

approximately the same extent in all patients, and fragment H is much more weakly bound.

 

Sera from two healthy individuals (which also tested negative for B. burgdorferi infection in an ELISA) failed to react with any of the fragments. Moreover, we screened 10 additional control sera for 41 kDA and fragment E reactivity and all were negative (data not shown.).

 

Fragments E, F, and G define a region (amino acids 197-241) that is highly reactive with anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies in patient sera, but which does not share significant sequence homology to the flagellins of Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella rubislaw, Roseburia cecicola or Serratia marcescens (except for four of seven identical amino acids within a short stretch defined by amino acids 209 to 215). Similarly, this region contains only a short segment of homology (four of 6 amino acids identical between amino acids 211-216) with the flagellin protein sequence of Treponema pallidum [C. I. Champion et al., "Cloning, Sequencing, And Expression Of Two Class B Endoflagellar Genes Of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum Encoding The 34.5 And 31.0-Kilodalton Proteins", Infect. Immun., 58, pp. 1697-1704 (1990)].  Accordingly, fragments E, F and G should not show substantial reactivity with antibodies directed against other bacteria or treponemes, and thus should represent immunodominant regions that are useful in the flagellin polypeptides of this invention.

 

To confirm these findings, we performed an immunoblot of fragments A-K using sera from 11 patients with Treponema pallidum, the agent of syphilis. The serum samples were obtained from the Connecticut State Laboratory. All the sera had VDRL titers ranging from 1:4 to 1:128 and all were positive by specific

fluorescent antibody assay (FTA). We chose syphilitic sera because B. burgdorferi is closely related to Treponema pallidum and syphilis is the most common spirochetal infection of humans in the United States.

 

While 10 of the 11 sera bound fragment 41-B, which contains 65 NH.sub.2 -terminal amino acids of flagellin and thus represents a conservative figure for the level of binding one would expect to see for the full-length flagellin antigen, only two of the sera demonstrated detectable binding to fragment 41G, and that binding was very weak. After prolonged exposure, weak binding to the other fragments was detected.

 

We also tested the diagnostic effectiveness of the flagellin polypeptides of this invention by ELISA. We coated microtitration plates with 200 microliters per well of recombinant 41-G fusion protein (1 microgram/ml) suspended in 0.05M sodium carbonate, pH 9.6. We also used whole, sonicated B. burgdorferi strain

297 as a coating antigen as previously described [J. R. Craft et al., "Antibody Response In Lyme Disease: Evaluation Of Diagnostic Tests", J. Inf. Dis., 149, pp. 789-95 (1984)]. We incubated the plates at 4.degree. C. overnight, then washed with PBS containing 0.05% Tween-20 (PBST). The patient sera we used were

diluted 1:100 in PBST and applied in triplicate to each antigen-coated plate at 200 micrograms per well. Plates were then incubated at room temperature for 75 minutes. We then washed the plates three times with PBST. For detection of bound antibody, goat anti-human mu chain alkaline phosphatase conjugate (Sigma) was diluted 1:1000 in PBST and applied at 200 microliters per well to the appropriate plates. We then incubated the plates at room temperature for 45 minutes. After three washes in PBST, p-nitrophenyl phosphate was added to each

well. The production of p-nitrophenyl was monitored at 405 nm and the reaction stopped with 3M NaOH when the appropriate positive control wells reached an optical density (A405 value) of 1.0 to 1.5. We calculated the numerical values of the antibody response of patients' sera to each antigen by comparison to standard curves established on each antigen using known positive Lyme disease sera as previously described (J. R. Craft et al. supra).

 

Briefly, we established standard curves, using serial 2-fold dilutions of known IgM and IgG positive Lyme disease sera, for each antigen, with patients' sera applied to the same plates. In addition, eight known normal sera were run on the same plate, each at a 1:100 dilution; the mean A405 value of these eight sera was set as the cut-off A405 value. The first serial dilution of the standard positive sample that exceeded this cut-off value was assigned a value of 100 antibody units, and a curve relating A405 value to antibody units was established on this basis. The average A405 value for each patient serum was then compared to the standard curve and a value of antibody units was assigned to each serum on the basis of this comparison. A negative titer was <100 units,

and titers of 200 to 400 represent reactivity compared to control, positive serum at subsequent 2-fold dilutions. We tested some of the serum samples a minimum of 2 times on separate occasions and in each instance there was never more than a 2-fold difference in the measured antibody levels.

 

Of the eleven syphilitic serum samples, three (having VDRL titers of 1:8, 1:32 and 1:128) showed weak reactivity with B. burgdorferi, yet none showed reactivity with the 41-G fragment.

 

Thus, a flagellin polypeptide comprising an immunodominant region corresponding to fragment 41G is highly specific and highly sensitive as well.

 

In other ELISAs to detect the presence of anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies, we found a high correlation in test results using whole spirochete extract or 41-G as the substrate. However, in a small number of patients, some discrepancies in results yielded by various substrates were noted. Over half of the "discrepant" results occurred with values just above the positive cut-off. Accordingly, as with any diagnostic assay, the sensitivity of diagnostic assays utilizing the flagellin polypeptides of this invention should be rigorously standardized….”

 

 

 

 

What that means is that there is no arguing the validity of my claim that Yale committed a crime.  This is their own patent claim and validation.

 

You should be investigating and prosecuting this and not me.  LymeRIX was scientific fraud.  I have already given several of the State’s Attorneys this data.  I gave AAG Tom Ryan the Dearborn booklet and the old CDC published standard in the summer of 2003.  I have been in communication with you before.  I believe it was over my complaint against the State to the CT Commission on Human Rights in Waterbury.

 

False Claims Act à Allen Steere’s 1993 blood testing standard for Lyme.  All the US grants that were paid out upon that bogus standard, such as Klempner’s chronic Lyme “study” were also false claims.  The validity of the Yale Lyme vaccine qualification was a false claim, and they obviously knew it, since this is their earlier VALID diagnostic test.

 

http://whistleblowerlaws.com/protection.htm

 

I give the State the data, the State is not supposed to harass and abuse us, in response.  The potential claims against Yale are huge.  Yale cannot say the above is not a validation:  It is Accurate, Specific, Early and tested empirically in the field. 

 

 

KMDickson

http://actionlyme.org

 

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