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Characterization and evolution of dermal filaments from patients with Morgellons disease
Original Research
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Authors: Middelveen MJ, Mayne PJ, Kahn DG, Stricker RB
Video abstract presented by Raphael B Stricker
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Published Date January 2013
Volume 2013:6 Pages 1 - 21
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S39017
| Received: | 10 October 2012 
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| Accepted: | 28 November 2012 |
| Published: | 08 January 2013 |
1International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2Department of Pathology, Olive View–UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA, USA
Abstract: Morgellons disease is an emerging skin disease characterized by formation of dermal filaments associated with multisystemic symptoms and tick-borne illness. Some clinicians hypothesize that these often colorful dermal filaments are textile fibers, either self-implanted by patients or accidentally adhering to lesions, and conclude that patients with this disease have delusions of infestation. We present histological observations and electron microscopic imaging from representative Morgellons disease samples revealing that dermal filaments in these cases are keratin and collagen in composition and result from proliferation and activation of keratinocytes and fibroblasts in the epidermis. Spirochetes were detected in the dermatological specimens from our study patients, providing evidence that Morgellons disease is associated with an infectious process.
Keywords: Morgellons disease, digital dermatitis, Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, spirochetes, keratin, keratinocytes, collagen, fibroblasts
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This has a good page on Morgellons and Bartonella and their relationship.
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