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Physicians who treat Blastocystis infection
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Information For Researchers
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BRF studies classified by topic
Assays for detection of Blastocystis 'hominis''
References for role of iron in pathogen virulence
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Differential diagnosis of Blastocystis infection
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Primary Documents (newspaper articles, TV interviews, letters)
| Disease | Caused by Microbe | Date(s) Microbial Involvement Denied |
What They Say is the True Cause | References |
| Cholera | Vibrio cholerae | 1849-1853 | Environmental toxins (miasmas) Many factors |
(April 2011)
Professor Richard Evans' annual lecture for Sense About Science
Transcript is at Epidemics and Refuseniks BRF's letter in Lancet Infectious Diseases on the disputed role of cholera in causing illness ("Emerging Infectious Diseases are Not Always Obvious") |
| Ulcers | Helicobacter pylori | 1980-1990 | Emotional Stress |
Dr. Fran Collyer's paper on Helicobacter pylori Dr. Barry Marshall's Nobel Prize acceptance lecture (2005) |
| Ulcers | Helicobacter pylori | 2006 | Emotional Stress, early life experiences |
Introduction to the Rome III Guidelines for Diagnosing GI Illlness |
| TB | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 2009 | Emotional Stress, environmental toxins, allergies | Article from UK Journal
Gut Reaction |
| AIDS | HIV | 1990's | Environmental toxins |
See Professor Richard Evans' lecture above |
| BSE | A prion | 1990's | See Professor Richard Evans' lecture above | |
| Diarrhea | Blastocystis sp. | 1990's-present | Emotional stress, environmental toxins, allergies | Article from UK Journal
Gut Reaction Letter from BRF/ Representative Kurt Schrader (D-OR) asking the NIH to disclose the process they use for classifying pathogens |
| Diarrhea | Giardia lamblia | 1954 | Unknown virus |
Letter from Dr.
Lyle Veazie (New England Journal of Medicine, 1969) |
| Unexplained illness in WWII veterans in the UK | Strongyloides stercoralis | 1950's-current | Emotional Stress? |
Study on UK Veterans who were imprisoned in Burma in World
War II |
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