Hi - some mycoplasma questions

[dut]

Hello.

 

I was wondering if anyone can answer some questions for me.....

 

Is it true that in subsequent myco infections the IgM doesn't always become raised (I've come back raised for IgG but not IgM but have read that that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a current infection)?

 

Has anyone had negative results for IgM and IgG mycoplasma pneumoniae but had a positive come back by PCR testing either blood or swabs?

 

Has anyone tried looking for other variaties of myco such as fermentans, hominis etc? (fermentans is one of those implicated by some in Gulf War Syndrome).

 

Thanks for any info you can offer

 

 

:-)

Edited February 22, 2011 by dut

[philamom]

I'm wondering as well. My Myco P. IgG is elevated at 4.08 and staying.

 

My daughter was checked for Myco F. by her LLMD.

[dut]

Hi - did the LLMD check your dd via IgG and IgM or did he/she do a PCR test? I'm reading that, just like Lyme, myco is a stealth pathogen and you can have it but again like Lyme not be showing antibodies to it.... in my lay terms, I believe a PCR test 'smashes open' the cell and looks inside for the myco itself rather than looking for the body's defenses against it, antibodies. If I got that wrong, anyone, please chime in :-)