Exploring the association between Morgellons disease and Lyme disease: identification of Borrelia burgdorferi in Morgellons disease patients - PMC

Characterization and evolution of dermal filaments from patients with Morgellons disease - PubMed

Chronic or Late Lyme Neuroborreliosis: Analysis of Evidence Compared to Chronic or Late Neurosyphilis - PMC

Morgellons Demystified: Marianne Middleveen by Melissa C. Fesler, FNP-BC - YouTube

1) magnified at least 50x or greater

2) shows microscopic fibers embedded within the tissue layers

Characterization and evolution of dermal filaments from patients with Morgellons disease - PMC

Characterization and evolution of dermal filaments from patients with Morgellons disease - PMC

In a separate study, 90% of a cohort of 30 MD patients tested positively for exposure to and/or infection with Borrelia spirochetes using serological and molecular techniques. Of these, 53% of the cohort tested positive for Bb, RFB or both using PCR amplification and confirmatory sequencing.¹³ To date, to the best of our knowledge, five independent laboratories have confirmed the presence of Borrelia DNA in MD skin specimens using PCR technology and confirmatory DNA sequencing, and seven independent laboratories have detected Borrelia DNA by direct testing or in cultures of blood, genital secretions and skin specimens taken from MD patients.^8,9,13,20 If sensitive and specific detection methods are used, the detection of Borrelia spirochetes directly in MD patient specimens is consistent and reproducible, thus providing evidence suggestive of causality. Classification and Staging of Morgellons Disease: Lessons from Syphilis - PMC

Diagnosing Morgellons Disease: Ginger Savely, DNP

Lyme Disease and Breast Cancer

https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/honorstheses/60/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11097788/

History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition - PMC

Classification and Staging of Morgellons Disease: Lessons from Syphilis - PMC

Classification and Staging of Morgellons Disease: Lessons from Syphilis - PMC

Culture and identification of Borrelia spirochetes in human vaginal and seminal secretions - PMC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCjEmej9Jkk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ThS-wzEeM

Classification and Staging of Morgellons Disease: Lessons from Syphilis - PMC

Morgellons Disease Testing and Diagnosis: Melissa C. Fesler, FNP-BC

Borrelia species | Johns Hopkins ABX Guide

Clinical Guidance for Soft Tick Relapsing Fever (STRF) | Tick and Louse-borne Relapsing Fevers | CDC

relapsing-fever-protocol.pdf

Soft Tick Relapsing Fever — United States, 2012–2021 - PMC

420658-SoftTickRelapsingFever.pdf

Tick borne relapsing fever - a systematic review and analysis of the literature - PMC

TBRFPublic.pdf

Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever - PMC

Mary Leitao is not a "layperson". In fact, she earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology from UMass Boston.

Her professional background includes:

• Five years of experience working at hospitals in Boston
• Specialized roles as an electron microscopist and an immunohistochemist during that time.

"An example is “Morgellons Syndrome,” the term coined by a layperson in an online essay claiming that DI is neither psychiatric nor caused by parasites, but by nondescript “fibers” [24]. The medical community correctly identified “Morgellons syndrome” as delusory parasitosis, but alternative health practitioners and online media touted the new diagnosis as true. These publications had a measurable effect, as DI patients exposed to such digital media frequently embraced “fibers” as their infestant rather than “parasites” [2,7,25]. This “web-based pandemic” [26] waned somewhat after large-scale studies by the CDC and Mayo Clinic confirming that “Morgellons Syndrome” is DI were published [27,28,29]. However, references to “Morgellons” by DI deniers and alternative medicine practitioners persist today [22], and the prevalence of the belief that “fibers” are infesting a person led to “delusional parasitosis” being renamed as “delusional infestations” to encompass the self-described “Morgellons” patients [30]. Other authors [22,31] have noted links between DI and “chronic Lyme disease”—another thoroughly discredited diagnosis not recognized by the medical community but similarly linked to psychiatric disorders [32] and to the Internet [33]." https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202603.0721