Multiple Sclerosis, Mad Cow Disease and Acinetobacter

✍ Scribed by Alan Ebringer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is to publicise and bring to a wider audience the concept that the cause of two neurological diseases, namely multiple sclerosis (MS) and “mad cow disease” also known as “bovine spongiform encephalopathy” are related through exposure to a common microbe Acinetobacter which is found in human sinuses, on skin and in the soil. An infection is the cause of a neurological disease in man and in animals. Elevated levels of antibodies to Acinetobacter have been found in multiple sclerosis patients as well as in ruminants who have been described as suffering from “mad cow disease” following exposure to contaminated feed supplements. The overall objective and scope of this book is to inform the audience, the reader, that multiple sclerosis may be linked to a microbe Acinetobacter which carries molecular structures resembling myelin, the outer sheath covering of neurons.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Multiple Sclerosis as a Scientific Problem....Pages 1-7
History of the Attempts to Find the Origin of Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 9-14
The Problem of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy also Known as “Mad Cow Disease” in the United Kingdom....Pages 15-20
Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis as a Model of Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 21-26
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Comparison Between the “Prion” Hypothesis and the Autoimmune Theory....Pages 27-35
Molecular Sequences in EAE and BSE Point to Acinetobacter Bacteria....Pages 37-44
Autoantibodies to Brain Components and Antibodies to Acinetobacter Are Present in Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy....Pages 45-55
Antibodies to Acinetobacter Bacteria But Not to Other Microbes Are Present in Animals with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy....Pages 57-65
An Ante-Mortem Test for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Involving “Myelin-Acinetobacter-Neurofilaments” (MAN) Tested in 12 Strains of Acinetobacter Bacteria....Pages 67-78
Antibodies to Prion and Acinetobacter Peptide Sequences in Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy....Pages 79-86
Antibodies to Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas Bacteria in Multiple Sclerosis Patients....Pages 87-96
Antibodies to Acinetobacter Peptide Sequences Resembling Myelin and Neurofilaments in Multiple Sclerosis Patients....Pages 97-107
The Myelin- Acinetobacter- Neurofilament Index in an Attempt to Diagnose Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 109-117
Antibodies to Short Synthetic Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas Peptide Sequences Resembling Myelin and Neurofilaments in Multiple Sclerosis Patients....Pages 119-129
Antibodies to Acinetobacter and Myelin in Multiple Sclerosis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Patients....Pages 131-139
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and its Variants....Pages 141-152
Sinusitis in Multiple Sclerosis and Acinetobacter ....Pages 153-160
The Theory That Multiple Sclerosis, CJD and BSE are Caused by Acinetobacter ....Pages 161-171
The Scientific Method of Sir Karl Popper....Pages 173-181
Multiple Sclerosis and “Popper Sequences”....Pages 183-193
Back Matter....Pages 195-200

✦ Subjects

Antibodies; Immunology; Infectious Diseases; Veterinary Medicine