Re: Antibotics

From: Frank de Groot (franciad_at_online.no)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:19:36 +0100

"Martijn" <Kw3Ls@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41e513e7$0$764$3a628fcd@reader20.nntp.hccnet.nl...

> But people do make antibodies against Bb, so these could attack Bb, right?

Nope. Not when you only have a CNS infection.

The cells that make contact with Bb to get the info they need to tell the
bone marrow to make antibodies do not exist in the CNS.
Meaning, a CNS-only infection caan't be faught at all by your immune system,
and as soon as the antibodies run out, you're toast.
(antibodies DO penetrate the BBB).

And Bb, when intracellular, is totally invisible to the immune system /
can't be reached by antibodies.

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