Re: More on Klempner's deceptiveness

Ok, look at this at the time the participants are being selected. They
need to WB 5 bands; that would indicate continuing infection by
everyone's standards (especially given that they had rashed, and were
still sick puppies)....I am trying to say that at that point in time,
everyone took Klempner's entry criteria to signal continuing infection.
Actually, no one had any sense of his PCR results
until after the study was published.
I heard the guy talk for an hour and a half, about Lyme and his study.
No one questioned, or had the slightest impression, that he was going
to give IV antibiotics to people who were free of infection. We would
have thought that crazy, absolutely pointless .
Our concerns were over lenght of treatment, and the exclusion of very
sick people who didn't WB 5 bands, as well as objective measures of
infection and improvement, like SPECT scans, and the statistical
correction for cycling.

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: HSP58
    ... because my infection is old. ... don't remember what) Bands on IgG. ... I have never tested positive for any co's in bloodwork, just lyme. ...
    (sci.med.diseases.lyme)
  • Re: HSP58
    ... because my infection is old. ... don't remember what) Bands on IgG. ... I have never tested positive for any co's in bloodwork, just lyme. ...
    (sci.med.diseases.lyme)
  • Re: How much does it matter where you were bitten?
    ... also dogs typically require two or three bands on wb. ... IgG band at 41 kDa is widely regarded in the veterinary world as ... serological evidence of asymptomatic infection. ...
    (sci.med.diseases.lyme)
  • Bastard Strangles
    ... steroids which would be a Very Bad Thing if she had an infection ... She is in a double foaling stall with her dam keeping her ... bore drain in the middle of it. ... she had been sick, but he "doctored on her" and she was all right. ...
    (rec.equestrian)
  • Roll call..want to make sure everyone is ok
    ... When I went back to pharmacy, ... but thought that I would get my medicine & ... sinus infection/upper respiratory infection. ... achy & still sick. ...
    (alt.support.arthritis)