Mycoplasmas Found in CFS/FMS

Researchers at the University of Oslo using polymerase chain reaction technology have detected mycoplasma blood infection in about half of the patients sampled with chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia syndromes, versus an incidence of only 10 percent in the population as a whole. "Most patients with CFS/FMS who have mycoplasma infection appear to recover and reach their pre-illness state after long-term antibiotic therapy with doxycycline," the July 30, 2003 report in PubMed says, "and the infection cannot be detected after recovery."