Mycoplasma

[DraconisRex]

If anyone knows anything about mycoplasma, I'd be happy to hear what you know. This is a new science, and may be the true origin of cancer, certain heart diseases, and even AIDS. Speak, and be heard!

Thanks....

[Guest]

You are getting into an awfully technical subject here Draconis, I bet a good portion of the commanders here have never even heard of it.

[Epsilon 5]

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[Pedro Pablo Laracuente]

Maybe if you posted some info...

[IceCold]

Look at some of the new medical journals. I personaly have little knowledge on this topic and do not see corolation between AIDS and cancer.

[DraconisRex]

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Originally posted by Jaguar:

You are getting into an awfully technical subject here Draconis, I bet a good portion of the commanders here have never even heard of it.

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Yeah, I know -- just wondering if anybody here had been diagnosed with any of the several varieties that exist, or had knowledge of it that could be put into usable English...

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Maybe if you posted some info...

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Okay. I know almost nothing about the subject, but here is what I found that makes a little sense:

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Mycoplasmas are the smallest free-living microorganisms, being about 300 nm in diameter. They are bounded by a triple-layered membrane and, unlike conventional bacteria, do not have a rigid cell wall. Hence, they are not susceptible to penicillins and other antibiotics that act on this structure. They are, however, susceptible to a variety of other broad-spectrum antibiotics, most of which only inhibit their multiplication and do not kill them. The tetracyclines have always been in the forefront of antibiotic usage, particularly for genital tract infections, but macrolides are also widely used for respiratory tract infections. Indeed, in comparison with the tetracyclines, erythromycin, the newer macrolides, the ketolides and the newer quinolones have equal or sometimes greater activity.

The two latter antibiotic groups also have some cidal activity. The antibiotic susceptibility profiles of several mycoplasmas of human origin are presented, those of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Mycoplasma genitalium being similar. Apart from the penicillins, mycoplasmas are innately resistant to some other antibiotics, for example the rifampicins. In addition, some may develop resistance, either by gene mutation or by acquisition of a resistance gene, to antibiotics to which they are usually sensitive.

Resistance of mycoplasmas to tetracyclines is common and due to acquisition of the tetM gene. The antibiotic susceptibility pattern may be influenced greatly by the source of the mycoplasma; for example, one recovered from a contaminated eukaryotic cell culture that has been subjected to extensive antibiotic treatment may have an antibiotic profile quite different from the same mycoplasmal species that has been recovered directly from a human or animal source. Mycoplasmas may be difficult to eradicate from human or animal hosts or from cell cultures by antibiotic treatment because of resistance to the antibiotic, or because it lacks cidal activity, or because there is invasion of eukaryotic cells by some mycoplasmas.

Eradication may be particularly difficult in immunosuppressed or immunodeficient individuals, particularly those who are hypogammaglobulinaemic. The regimes that are most likely to be effective in the treatment of respiratory or genitourinary mycoplasmal infections are presented.

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More detail:

Mycoplasma

There is good reason to believe that some varieties of the psudo-bacterium have been militarized, meaning modified to become a weapon of mass destruction.

The reason I'm interested in the subject is that doctors have been unable to tell me why my heart has a resting rate of 120 (despite multiple days in the hospital, more tests than I thought possible, to include heart stress-test, EKG, EEG, and MRI,) but my blood pressure is perfectly normal. It made absoulutely no sense to them, but I found a post elsewhere that says that if the body is holding liquid, it can raise heart rates, and the normal cause is a certain form of mycoplasma.

[Epsilon 5]

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hypogammaglobulinaemic.

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this just makes me laugh. so much of a long word

Hehe, I must be one of the only that gets a clue of what that scientific babbling means