Re: Protective niche for Borrelia burgdorferi to evade humoral immunity.

From: A_Weisman (a_weisman_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: 30 Sep 2004 15:35:07 -0700

"Frank de Groot" <franciad@online.no> wrote in message news:<wLA6d.9716$WW4.171226@news4.e.nsc.no>...
> "Greg Gerber" <GregGerber@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> >> Two more questions--The authors define BB as an extracelluar
> >> infection--has
> >> that been determined to a medical certainity?
> >
> > Not to my mind. It remains unproven one way or another --b burgdorferi
> > is proven to be intracellular in vitro but never in vivo.

No one said anything like that Frank.

> So you are saying that the electron microscope photo's of a neuron with Bb
> half sticking out (of tissue obtained from an autopsy) are a "conspiracy"?
>
> Or, LOL, you consider Bb in dead tissue not "in vivo any more"..

That isn't nearly as absurd as you seem to think. Living tissue might
well possess defense mechanism protecting against invasion which are
lacking in dead tissue.

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