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Babesia microti, a malaria-like illness that could explain the fevers, chills, and day and night sweats and that account for some of their resistant symptoms. Once treated, some patients using wheelchairs could stand and walk. Next was the discovery of cat scratch disease symptoms, or Bartonella, which could explain their resistant neurological sym
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ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and a Western blot, through a reliable laboratory), with confirmatory evidence of other tick-borne diseases as well.
Richard Horowitz • Why Can't I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease
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Remarkably, about half of all useful antibiotics target bacterial ribosomes.
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
make neither the amino acid methionine nor biotin, a B vitamin. The other strain he picked couldn’t make the amino acids threonine and proline. Lederberg put the bacteria in a broth he stocked with all four compounds so that the mutant microbes could grow and multiply. They mingled in the broth for a few weeks, with plenty of opportunity for hypoth
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