NCC/ Mycoplasma News Letter

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Hi All,

Here is some more interesting information for those of you who are

interested!

Hugs and God bless Robin

Very Informative~

Mycoplasma Registry for gulf war illness & chronic fatigue syndrome

A. & Leslee M. Dudley

303 47th Street, J10

San Diego, California 92102-5961

Tel/Fax: e-mail: mycoreg@...

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M Y C O P L A S M A R E G I S T R Y

for gulf war illness & chronic fatigue syndrome

NEWSLETTER PART I November 2, 1999

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MYCOPLASMA ARE CONTAGIOUS

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Thousands of people diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,

Fibromyalgia

and Gulf War Illness, from all over our country and the world, have

tested positive for mycoplasmas. Mycoplasmas are contagious. Fifty-six

percent of the victims on our MYCOPLASMA REGISTRY had an airborne,

contagious onset.

Mycoplasma Onset [graphic]

Airborne

30% flu

12% bronchitis

9% pneumonia

4% sinusitis

1% meningitis

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56% Airborne Onset

11% vehicle accident

9% surgery

8% chemical exposures

4% FDA approved vaccinations

2% experimental vaccinations

10% unknown

MYCOPLASMAS: FAMILY DISEASE

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It is a slow growing epidemic that is infecting and devastating entire

families. Almost 60% of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients on our

registry, have more than one person in their households who have tested

positive for mycoplasma infections. These are husbands and wives,

fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, mothers & sons, extended family

members and even household pets. [slides of families tested positive ]

DR. NICOLSON'S PCR BLOOD TEST

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Now, there is an accurate PCR blood test and protocol designed by Drs.

Garth and Nicolson, to diagnose and treat these mycoplasma

infections. These tests are far more accurate than previous antibody or

blood culture tests. Once long term antibiotic treatment is started,

patients begin recovering. No new drugs need to be developed.

We and hundreds of MYCOPLASMA REGISTRY members are recovering after one

to three years on antibiotics. Unfortunately, the CDC's criminal

diversion of CFS research funds has caused delays in diagnosis and

treatment. Some patients who have suffered years of infections may

need to take antibiotics for the rest of their lives. [slide of Dr.

Nicolson at The Institute for Molecular Medicine]

DR. LO'S MYCOPLASMA PATNET

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The overwhelming body of evidence from researchers forces us to conclude

that there is a national, if not global epidemic. Even Dr. Shyh-Ching

Lo, pathologist for the Department of Defense who discovered and

patented

mycoplasma fermentans incognitus and mycoplasma penetrans, states in his

own patents, that Mycoplasma fermentans is the cause of Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome.

United States Patent

Patent Number: 5,242,820

Date of Patent: Sep. 7, 1993

Pathogenic Mycoplasma

Inventor: Shyh-Ching Lo, Potomac, Md.

Assignee: American Registry of Pathology

Washington, D.C [Dept. of Defense]

Filed: June 6, 1991 [originally applied for June 18, 1986]

" O. Other Disease States in Which M. fermentans incognitus Has Been

Implicated

In addition to AIDS, M. fermentans incognitus has been implicated in

a

number of other Disease states including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,

Wegener's Disease, Sarcoidosis, respiratory distress syndrome, Kikuchi's

disease, autoimmune diseases such as Collagen Vascular Disease and

Lupus,

and chronic debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease. M.

fermentans incognitus may be either a causative agent of these diseases

or a key cofactor in these diseases.

P. Treatment of M. fermentans incognitus Infection

M. fermentans incognitus is known to be sensitive to a number of

antibiotics, including doxycycline, quinalones such as ciprofloxacin,

chloramphenicol and tetracycline. Therefore, effective treatment of any

of the above implicated diseases should include administration of

antibiotics to which M. fermentans incognitus is sensitive. "

[slides: Dr. Lo's portrait, patent cover, patent excerpt]

CONGRESSMAN BOB FILNER

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We have enlisted Congressman Bob Filner and others for their support in

bringing this epidemic to the attention of Congress. [slide of

Congressman Bob Filner of San Diego, CA, Senior Democrat on the

Veterans'

Affairs Committee, expert on Gulf War Illness]

MUST RECLASSIFY MYCOPLASMAS

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The CDC, FDA and NIH, all have sections devoted to mycoplasma research.

They acknowledge that mycoplasmas are contagious to farm animals such as

pigs, chickens and cattle, causing arthritis, stunted growth, even

death.

Vaccines have been developed and used on animals for years. Yet, all

these health organizations continue to deny that mycoplasmas can spread

through the human population or cause illness.

We demand that the CDC reclassify mycoplasmas as a reportable contagious

disease if found in the blood and that they require every diagnosis of

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to be reported by physicians.

RECALL CDC'S CFS BOOKLET

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The CDC must immediately recall its May 1999 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

booklet. The booklet advises patients not to be tested for mycoplasma

infection. A new booklet should recommend testing for mycoplasma and

other infections, and advise doctors that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

patients are responding to antibiotic treatment. The CDC must stop

implying that this is a psychological disorder and stop recommending

medications that lead to severe addiction.

" d. Theoretical and Experimental Tests

A number of tests, some of which are offered commercially, have no

demonstrated value for the diagnosis of CFS. These tests should not be

performed unless required for diagnosis of a suspected exclusionary

condition (e.g., MRI to rule out suspected multiple sclerosis) or unless

they are part of a scientific study. In the latter case, written

informed

consent of the patient is required. No diagnostic tests for infectious

agents, such as Epstein-Barr virus, enteroviruses, retroviruses, human

herpesvirus 6, Candida albicans, and Mycoplasma incognita, are

diagnostic

for CFS and as such should not be used (except to identify an illness

that would exclude a CFS diagnosis, such as mononucleosis). In addition,

no immunologic tests, including cell profiling tests such as

measurements

of natural killer cell (NK) number or function, cytokine tests (e.g.,

interleukin-1, interleukin-6, or interferon), or cell marker tests

(e.g.,

CD25 or CD16), have ever been shown to have value for diagnosing CFS.

Other tests that must be regarded as experimental for making the

diagnosis of CFS include the tilt table test for NMH, and imaging

techniques such as MRI, PET-scan, or SPECT- scan. Reports of a pathway

marker for CFS as well as a urine marker for CFS are undergoing further

study; however, neither is considered useful for diagnosis at this

time. "

[page 10 of CDC booklet " Chronic Fatigue Syndrome " ]

DOUBLE BLIND STUDIES NEEDED

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The CDC & NIH must fund double-blind studies with antibiotics to

determine which are most effective against specific strains of

mycoplasmas or we will demand that Congress take away funding from the

CDC and NIH as it has taken away funding from the DoD for Gulf War

Illness. Thank you.

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M Y C O P L A S M A R E G I S T R Y

for gulf war illness & chronic fatigue syndrome

NEWSLETTER PART II November 2, 1999

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[The Mycoplasma Registry has been working with Congressman Bob Filner of

San Diego for three years on issues of Gulf War Illness and Chronic

Fatigue Syndrome. We asked Congressman Filner to speak to the Chronic

Fatigue Syndrome Coordinating Committee meeting after our video was to

be

shown. The CFSCC agreed to allow him to speak at the November 2, 1999

meeting. Congressman Filner made plans to attend. Unfortunately, the

Congressman was detained on the floor of the House. However, the

following statement was to have been presented to the CFSCC, and has

been

sent to all the members of the Committee as well as officials at the

CDC.]

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WRITTEN TESTIMONY

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME COORDINATING COMMITTEE

11-2-99

CONGRESSMAN BOB FILNER

I'm grateful to the Committee for allowing me to submit my testimony

for the written record. I had wanted to be present because I feel that

more attention needs to be paid to this health issue, but the business

of

the House of Representatives prevented my attendance.

As a senior Democrat on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, I have for some

time been investigating the cause of the Gulf War illness, which I am

convinced is a real and debilitating disease.

Various credible theories have been advanced. One of the most credible

for the majority of the instances of both Gulf War illness and Chronic

Fatigue Syndrome appears to be mycoplasma infection in the blood. Since

it's being found in such high numbers in both diseases, and patients are

recovering after antibiotic treatment, the simple conclusion to me is

they are related diseases.

Recently, I've had a close friend come to me with various diagnoses of

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or fibromyalgia. Based on my own research, her

symptoms closely paralleled those of mycoplasma infection, and I had her

get in touch with and Leslee Dudley who advised her to be tested.

Garth Nicolson tested her, and she was positive. She has now started to

recover, using antibiotic treatment. So now, this is very personal with

me.

I have watched with increasing exasperation the foot dragging,

avoidance,

misdirection of funds, and outright lies from both the Departments of

Defense and Veterans' Affairs and now the CDC and other U.S. Health

Organizations, as I and other legislators have tried to get to the

bottom

of these diseases.

I backed the current VA double-blind study for antibiotic treatment for

Gulf War illness, but the results won't be known for some time, and I am

still greatly concerned about the parameters of the study which may

influence the outcome of the trial.

I've had to make phone calls to physicians and HMO's on behalf of my

constituents in order for them to receive tests and treatment for

Chronic

Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia. All of them are beginning to make

recoveries. The shame of all this is that our health system would have

fewer costs if they only tested and treated patients for these

infections, rather than dismissing their complaints and conducting

unneeded but expensive procedures or prescribing them expensive

medications that are only creating addicts.

I am especially concerned with the most recent Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

booklet the CDC is putting out. To my way of thinking, the booklet

dismisses the most promising line of research yet discovered, mycoplasma

infection, in a strange circular logic that can best be described as

" Catch-22 " reasoning. Patients are told not to be tested for mycoplasma;

it's a waste of time. But if you are tested positive, and you recover

with antibiotics, then you can't really have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Here are my specific suggestions for CDC:

- Mycoplasmas should be classified as a reportable, contagious disease

if

found in the blood.

- Every diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia should be

reported by physicians.

- The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Coordinating Committee should recommend

that Dr. Garth Nicolson do a double-blind study for mycoplasma in CFS

patients.

- The entire $12.9 million must be returned immediately, not over four

years, and additional funds must be allocated to investigate infectious

agents as the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.

- Lastly, I want to inform the Committee that I intend to sign on to the

GAO investigation into the missing CFS funds. I want some

accountability-even at CDC. Thank you.

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M Y C O P L A S M A R E G I S T R Y

for gulf war illness & chronic fatigue syndrome

NEWSLETTER PART III April 22, 1999

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LETTER PRESENTED TO THE

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME

COORDINATING COMMITTEE MEETING

April 22, 1999

by & Leslee Dudley

Thousands of civilians and military personnel throughout the world are

now testing positive for Mycoplasma fermentans incognitus; 80% with

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and 65% with Gulf War Illness.

It is long overdue for CFS to be acknowledged as a contagious disease,

and not a psychological ailment. Dr. Garth Nicolson has provided

accurate

diagnostic PCR blood tests for the detection of Mycoplasmas. The VA is

starting a double blind study for Mycoplasma using Dr. Nicolson's PCR

blood test and antibiotic protocol.

People on our Registry test positive for one to four species of

Mycoplasmas. They are taking antibiotics, recovering and testing

negative in one to three years.

I It has been a decade since we were both diagnosed with CFS. We

caught it before the Gulf War began; with irritable bowel syndrome

and Leslee with Fibromyalgia and Lupus. We tried many CFS treatments

including IV gamma globulin, a double blind interferon trial and

various

medications (Leslee is on page 96 of Dr. Jay Goldstein's " Betrayal of

the Brain " ).

As Gulf War Illness became known, we recognized the symptoms as

CFS/like.

We tested positive for Mycoplasma fermentans incognitus, started

antibiotic treatment and began recovering. was the first civilian

to be retested using a bone marrow biopsy. After seven months on

antibiotics, he still tested positive.

Two years ago, we appeared on national TV as civilians who had GWI/CFS

with the good news that there was a PCR blood test and an antibiotic

protocol. Responding to hundreds of phone calls, we started asking

questions and keeping statistics. These are some of our preliminary

findings. The Registry is 84% civilians, 16% military, 59% women, 28%

men and 13% children.

HOW DID THEIR ILLNESS START?

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Fifty six per cent attributed it to a probable airborne exposure. The

20% who caught it in a hospital setting after an accident or surgery,

also indicates its contagious nature. The people with trauma or

chemical exposure may have been previously infected, but the disease

only

fully developed after their immune systems were suppressed. However, 6

% caught it from vaccinations that may have been contaminated with

mycoplasma or experimental live mycoplasma vaccines.

MYCOPLASMA ONSET [graphic]

AIRBORNE:

30 % flu

12 % bronchitis

9 % pneumonia

4 % sinusitis

1 % meningitis

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56 % total

TRAUMA INVOLVING HOSPITALIZATION

11 % vehicle accidents

9 % surgery

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20 % total

CHEMICAL EXPOSURES

8%

VACCINATIONS

4 % FDA approved

2 % experimental

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6 % total

UNKNOWN

10%

HOW LONG BEFORE THEY WERE DISABLED? [graphic]

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The CDC claim CFIDS victims recover with 5 years.

The Registry shows that after 5 years 95% of CFIDS victims are totally

disabled.

6 months = 30 % disabled

1 year = 40 % disabled

2 years = 58 % disabled

3 years = 63 % disabled

4 years = 70 % disabled

5 years = 95 % disabled

WHEN DID THEIR SYMPTOMS FIRST BEGIN?

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In the 1970's and 1980's, people became infected with M. fermentans

after

experimental injections while in the Armed Forces or in civilian

prisons, as in Huntsville, TX. Their families subsequently became

infected. As it slowly spread into the population, the numbers spiked

as our troops were given vaccines in preparation for the Gulf War. The

incubation period is 2 to 18 months.

YEAR OF ONSET [graphic]

MYCOPLASMA FERMENTATANS INCOGNITUS

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Starts in 1974 with he first cases and slowly increasing, doubling in

the

years 1986,1987, 1988, then it doubles again in 1989, 1990,1991, 1992

[the gulf war], with the highest peak in 1994

OCCUPATION AT ONSET

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People are likely to catch this disease as a result of their

occupations. Contagiousness is demonstrated by the largest group

being

health care workers and the next largest group being teachers and

students. It passes into the civilian community by people who have

frequent contact with the public such as sales people, receptionists,

lawyers, entertainers, waitresses and clerks. People we counted as

having military connections, worked at or near military bases, in

aerospace fields, dock workers, merchant marines, truckers and airline

personal.

OCCUPATION AT ONSET [graphic]

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34 % Medical Professional

21 % Teachers & Students

21 % People Who Worked With the Public

13 % Military Connections

11 % Homemakers & Mother

ARE OTHER FAMILY MEMBER OR FRIENDS INFECTED?

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With couples, when the first person to become infected is a man, 84% of

the female partners tested positive. If the first partner to become

infected is a female, 48% of the male partners tested positive. When

one

parent was infected, 92% of the children tested were positive. Most

people on our Registry report close relatives or friends as becoming

symptomatic. Even pets get sick and die.

REGISTRY RECOMMENDATIONS

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Before the cold war, people who had CFS were suffering from a naturally

occurring type of mycoplasma. Mycoplasma fermentans incognitus is a

genetically altered biological weapon made more virulent, more drug

resistant and more contagious. The Department of Defense owns the

patents to it. The CDC and NIH have know about mycoplasmas for many

years, having worked with the DoD. The only thing that has changed is

that now, we the victims, know about it too.

1. CDC must reclassify mycoplasmas as a reportable

contagious disease if found in the blood.

2. FDA must test all vaccines for mycoplasma contamination.

3. Blood supplies must be tested routinely for mycoplasmas,

as is now done for HIV.

4. All military personal must be tested for mycoplasmas.

5. Health care workers, teachers and students must be

tested for mycoplasma infection.

6. NIH must fund studies for mycoplasma research.

7. All Gulf War Illness research must be taken away from the DoD.

8. All CFS, GWI and Fibromyalgia patients should be tested

for contagious diseases such as:

Mycoplasma

Chlamydia

Brucella

Streptococcus

HHV-6.

Rickettsia

9. Family members and pets of those infected should be tested and

treated.

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M Y C O P L A S M A R E G I S T R Y

for gulf war illness & chronic fatigue syndrome

NEWSLETTER March 1999

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VA RECRUITS GULF WAR VETS

FOR NICOLSON'S MYCOPLASMA TREATMENT STUDY

By & Leslee Dudley

VA STUDY

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The Veterans Administration has received a 12.3 million-dollar grant to

do a double blind study on Gulf War Veterans. The VA will be using Drs.

Garth and Nicolson's PCR blood test for the Mycoplasma fermentans

(incognitus strain). The study will be using the protocol developed by

the

Nicolsons to treat this systemic infection with the antibiotic

Doxycycline.

On March 1, 1999, twenty nine VA Hospitals will begin screening Gulf

War

Veterans' blood for Mycoplasma fermentans. From this, a study will be

made up of 450 patients who test positive for Mycoplasma fermentans.

Half the patients will receive the antibiotic Doxycycline for twelve

months and the other half will receive a placebo for twelve months.

The study's goal is to determine if antibiotic treatment directed

against

this mycoplasma species will improve the functional state of patients

with Gulf War Illness who are testing mycoplasma positive.

Specifically, if a twelve month course of Doxycycline reduces GWI

symptoms of pain, fatigue and neuro-cognitive problems. After twelve

months on Doxycycline, GWI patients will be retested to determine if

they are negative, relapse or recover.. The study will take two and a

half years.

WHO'S TESTING BLOOD SAMPLES?

CAN THEY BE TRUSTED?

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Mycoplasmas are not successfully found by normal antibody blood tests.

Since they are inside human white blood cells, forensic PCR is used.

Dr. Garth Nicolson , was given a small grant by the Department of

Defense

to teach his method of detecting the mycoplasma to the other labs that

will be doing the blood tests. The labs are Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo's at the

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Dr. Baseman's at U.T. San

and Dr. Garth Nicolson's Institute of Molecular Medicine,

Huntington Beach, CA.

Dr. Nicolson's lab has had a success rate of 65% positive for this

mycoplasma in Gulf War Vets,whereas other commercial labs have only

detected it in 30% of their samples.

Many civilian and military patients, after receiving a negative

mycoplasma result on their blood tests, have had to have the blood tests

redone by more reliable labs that found that they were actually positive

for the infection.

Dr. Lo has had a history of not finding mycoplasmas since 1993. He

could

not find them in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome blood samples, nor from more

than a hundred samples sent to him from Huntsville, Texas prison guards

and their families. Recently Dr. Lo was unable to find Mycoplasma

find Mycoplasma fermentans in more than 6,000 Gulf War Vet's blood

samples.

Mycoplasmas spoil quickly if unrefrigerated. Dr. Nicolson has found

that

after only six hours, half of the mycoplasmas are dead and within

seventy-two hours all are dead and deteriorated. It is important that

samples be sent with ice and quickly sent to the best and nearest lab.

Veterans participating in the study can specify which lab they want

their

blood samples sent to, according to Dr. Nicolson.

FILNER SUPPORTS NICOLSONS

GAO INVESTIGATION

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The Nicolsons have suggested possible contamination of the anthrax

vaccines with mycoplasmas as the cause of Gulf War Illness. They have

heroically fought for the victims of mycoplasma, both the Gulf War

Veterans and civilians who have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Since their

daughter contracted this disease after serving in the Gulf War, they

have

spent all their efforts developing blood tests, treatment protocols and

educating the public, Congress and physicians. Many Gulf War Vets and

Chronic Fatigue patients have successfully recovered after one to three

years of antibiotic treatments.

Their grant applications have been recently turned down by the

Department

of Defense. After almost one hundred fruitless studies by the

Department

of Defense into Gulf War Illness, Congress recommended that the private

sector be awarded the grants for studying Gulf War Illness. The

Nicolson's grants were originally submitted in 1995.

Congressman Bob Filner of San Diego, is the senior Democrat on the

Veterans Affairs Committee. He is well informed and has exhibited deep

concern over this problem. He has often personally met with both the

Nicolson's and the victims of mycoplasma.

Congressman Bob Filner has formally requested that the General

Accounting

Office investigate the rejection of the Nicolson's grant applications.

Filner wrote to the GAO:

" We have received information that at least one and possibly both

of his grant applications to the U.S. ArmyMedical Research Acquisition

Activity (USAMRAA) at Fort Detrick on Gulf War Illness may have been

tampered with and the priority scores changed from fundable to

unfundable.

A follow-up application submitted to the USAMRAA in 1996 was apparently

reviewed not by scientists but psychiatrists who may have bias and

conflict of interest in this matter—and many lack the training and

credential in this area necessary to provide a proper review.

My personal observation is that many of Dr. Nicolson's patients

aredoing better than many Department ofDefense/Veterans Administration

patients with Gulf War Illness and that his work is worthy of being

funded. "

In essence, the Nicolson's grants to study mycoplasma were turned down

because the DOD has emphasized psychological reasons for Gulf War

Illness. The Nicolsons have focused on contagious biological factors as

the cause of Gulf War Illness.

It is vitally important that the Nicolsons obtain their grant from the

DOD. The current VA study is based on the Nicolsons' old research from

1993. Since then they have identified other mycoplasmas infecting Gulf

War Vets. Some Vets have as many as four different mycoplasmas.

Doctors can successfully treat patients infected with M. fermentans

using Doxycycline if that is the only mycoplasma they have. Other

mycoplasmas need additional antibiotics. The Nicolson's have developed a

protocol using different antibiotics to treat multiple infections.

The VA will not be following this more advanced treatment protocol. The

VA study does not include a complete mycoplasma screen of subjects.

This

will ultimately create inaccurate results. Patients can be cured of M.

fermentans but still exhibit symptoms if they are infected with other

species of mycoplasma or infectious agents.

The Nicolson's have collected thousands of Gulf War Veterans' blood

samples, most taken immediately after the war. By studying these

samples they have created new PCR blood tests to detect infectious

agents

they have found. The Nicolson's Institute is now testing blood for the

following infections:

Mycoplasma Screen Test

Mycoplasma fermentans

Mycoplasma penetrans

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Mycoplasma hominis

Mycoplasma genitalium

Mycoplasma pirum

Chlamydia Screen Test

Chlamydia pneumoniae

Chlamydia trachomatis

Chlamydia psitasi

Brucella Screen Test

Brucella melitensis

Brucella abortus

The Institute also performs blood tests for pets because these

infectious diseases are passed between animals and humans.

GULF WAR VETERANS ILLNESS

STUDY SITES

ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT

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The following is a list of the VA Hospitals where veterans can get the

Mycoplasma fermentans blood test and be recruited for the twelve months

double blind Doxycycline treatment study.

VA Telephone

Hospitals Numbers &

Sites Extensions

Albany (518)462-331 x3080

Augusta (733)733-0188 x1713

Boston (617)232-9500 x5576

Bronx (917)787-3427

Brooklyn (718)630-2819

ton (803)792-4547

Dayton (937)298-3399 x5989

Durham (919)286-0411 x7308

East Orange (973)676-1000 x2156

Fargo (701)239-3700 x2156

Houston (713)794-7385

Manchester (800)892-8384 x6073

Milwaukee (414)384-2000 x1611

Minneapolis (612)725-2000 x4185

Montgomery (334)272-4670 x476

Nashville (615)327-4751 x5512

New Orleans (504)589-5920

Oklahoma X3284

Omaha (402)449-0650

Philadelphia (215)823-4244

Providence (401)457-3045

Richmond (804)675-5436

Salt Lake City (801)582-1565 x1466

San Diego (619)553-9967

San Francisco (415)221-4810 x2287

San (787)758-6900

West Haven (203)937-3446

White River (802)295-9363

Walter (202)782-806

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MYCOPLASMA REGISTRY for Gulf War Illness & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

& Leslee Dudley

303 47th Street, J-10

San Diego, CA 92102-5961

Tel: Fax: or E-mail:

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We are an unincorporated nonprofit association, Calfornia Reg. No. 6679.

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