bluelyme said...
borrelia is easily viewable with a simple blood smear and a decent microscope. see mustardseeds thread on the subject here or on lymnet. it was nice to see progress of different therapies in real time as well
bluelyme - did you see mustard seed's last post on part 2 of that thread
i just finished reading all of it yesterday and found the article he linked to in his final post (published in the journal Nature -Scientific Reports) - i found it really interesting regarding live blood slides and pleomorphic spirochete like forms.
the papers authors did replicate the kind of forms discussed in the thread - then did molecular analysis on these objects and found them to be artefacts of human origin - rather than bacterial ........
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-10479-8.pdf