Bacteria Clinic

Bacteria Clinic in London for Tests and Integrated Treatment of Gastrointestinal, Respiratory, Skin, Urinary, Soft Tissue and Disseminated Infections

picture: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, CDC, Public Health Image Library


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WHAT WE OFFER
INTRODUCTION TO BACTERIAL DISEASES
NEW LASER APPROACH
LINKS
LIST OF BACTERIA


WHAT WE OFFER

The Bacteria Clinic London offers tests and treatments/support for mainly gastrointestinal, (but also urinal/gynaecological, respiratory, skin, and disseminated) diseases. The gastro-tests/treatments include IBS-related symptoms, SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), food poisoning and post-poisoning-syndromes.

Our lab analyses skin-scratch, urine, stool and sputum samples as well as vaginal and rectal swabs. We use diagnostic microbiology and immunology tools like the PCR (polymerase chain reaction), which is widely used in biology research. A typical PCR procedure is designed to amplify DNA about 1 billion-fold. This allows the visualization of a single DNA molecule obtained from a single fungus or bacteria or parasite cell. PCR is also extremely useful for identifying viral and intracellular infections.

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INTRODUCTION TO BACTERIAL DISEASES

“The world will face new deadly threats within the next decade.” (WHO, World Health Organization). New diseases are emerging and spreading more quickly than at any time in history.
Scientists are more and more struggling to keep up, as new pathogens emerge or old ones re-occur … and these pathogens become more and more drug resistant.
Re-emerging are Mycobacterium (causing tuberculosis) and Yersinia pestis (causing the bubonic plague), a bacteria which killed nearly half of Europe’s population in the years after 1348.

Example of drug resistance:
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis,
- The development of resistance to penicillin in Neisseria gonorrhoea
- The methicillin-resistant Styaphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Campylobacter jejuni, a bacteria that developed drug resistance as a result of using antibiotics in animal feeds for growth promoting, is a major threat to poultry eaters
- the vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

But bacteria not only develop drug resistance, but also to heat, cold and other treatments used by the food industry. Food-borne pathogens like Salmonella, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Bacillus cereus and many more are on the rise.

The foundation PREVENTION – EARLY DIAGNOSIS – EFFECTIVE TREATMENT is completely shaken/unsettled.

The 5 factors in infectious diseases:

- ECOLOGICAL CHANGES – agriculture, water ecosystems, de/re-forestation, flood, drought, climate change
- HUMAN BEHAVIOUR – population growth, migration, war, travel, urban decay, sexual behaviour
- TECHNOLOGY and INDUSTRY – globalisation of food supplies, food processing, transplantation, immunosuppressive drugs, widespread use of antibiotics
- MICROBIAL ADAPTION and CHANGES - Changes in microbial populations can lead to the evolution of new pathogens, development of new virulent strains in old pathogens, development of antibiotic resistance that might make a disease more difficult to treat, or to changes in the ability to survive in adverse environmental conditions.
- BREAKDOWN IN PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES (reduction in prevention programmes, inadequate sanitation, closing down of hospitals, ready meals in hospitals, etc.)

Bacterial infectious diseases:

Anthrax – Bacterial Meningitis – Botulism – Brucellosis – Campylobacteriosis – Cat Scratch Disease – Cholera – Diphtheria – Epidemic Typhus – Gonorrhea – Impetigo– Legionellosis – Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) – Leptospirosis – Listeriosis – Lyme disease – Melioidosis – Rheumatic Fever;MRSA infection – Nocardiosis – Pertussis (Whooping Cough) – Plague – Pneumococcal pneumonia – Psittacosis – Q fever – Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) – Salmonellosis – Scarlet Fever – Shigellosis – Syphilis – Tetanus – Trachoma – Tuberculosis – Tularemia – Typhoid Fever – Typhus– Urinary Tract Infections

NEW LASER APPROACH

Laser Blood Irradiation Therapy/Transdermal Systemic Laser Therapy (TSLT)

…heal and increase functioning efficacy of the vascular, immune and respiratory system:
Currently the methods of laser and non-laser (incoherent monochromic, narrow-band or broadband) light blood irradiation therapy - the methods of photo-hemotherapy - are widely applied in the treatment of different pathologies. Direct intravenous and extracorporeal (with red, UV and blue light) as well as non-invasive transcutaneous (with red and infrared light) irradiation of blood are used. Unlike the treatment mechanisms of local laser therapy, the medical effects of photo-hemotherapy methods are determined by predominance of systemic healing mechanisms above the local ones, increasing the functioning efficacy of vascular, respiratory, immune, other systems and organism as a whole.

… normalisation of parameters of hormonal, immune, reproductive systems
The method of laser blood irradiation was developed in 1981 by the scientists E.N. Meshalkin and V.S. Sergievskiy. Originally the method was applied in the treatment of cardiovascular pathologies. Some authors reported that the treatment possibilities of the method are very large and include the improvement of rheological characteristics of the blood and microcirculation, normalisation of parameters of hormonal, immune, reproductive and many other systems.

… antitoxic, bio-stimulative, immuno-corrective, anti-allergic, antibacterial, antiviral, analgetic, anti-inflammatory
The laser stimulates the immune response of the organism, activates erythrogenesis and improves deformability of erythrocyte membranes, has anti-hypoxic activity on tissues and general antitoxic influence on the organism at different pathological processes. Our laser is used for its bio-stimulative, analgetic, antiallergic, immunocorrective, antitoxic, vasodilative, antiarrhythmic, antibacterial, antihypoxic, spasmolytic, anti-inflammatory and some other properties.

…boost the cellular part of your immunity, decrease concentrations of microbes in the abdomen, activate microcirculation
The laser activates non-specific mechanisms of anti-infectious immunity. Intensifying of bactericidal activity of serum of the blood and system of the complement, reduction of the degree of C - reactive protein, level of average molecules and toxicity of plasma, increasing the content of IgA, IgM and IgG in the serum of the blood, as well as decreasing of the level of circulating immune complexes are proved. There are studies on boosting effects of the laser on the cellular part of immunity (N. F. Gamaleya et al., 1991). Under influence of the laser, the phagocytic activity of macrophages markedly increases, concentration of microbes in the abdomen of patients decreases, reduction of inflammatory exhibiting of disease, activation of microcirculation are detected. The medical effect of the laser is stipulated by its immuno-corrective activity by normalisation of intercellular relationships within the subpopulation of T-lymphocytes and increasing the amount of immune cells in a blood. It elevates the function activity of B-lymphocytes, strengthens the immune response, reduces the degree of intoxication and as a result improves the general condition of patients (V. S. Sergievskiy et al., 1991).

…increase energy and normalise tissue metabolism, activate ATP–synthesis and energy formation in cells, increase oxidation of energy-carrying molecules
The laser promotes improving the rheological properties of blood, rising fluidity and activating transport functions. That is accompanied by increasing the oxygen level, as well as decreasing the carbon dioxide partial pressure. The arterio-venous difference by oxygen is enlarged, that testifies the liquidation of a tissue hypoxia and enrichment the oxygenation. It is a sign of normalisation of tissue metabolism. Probably, the basis of activation of oxygen transport function of the laser is the influence on haemoglobin with transforming it in more favourable conformation state. The augmentation of oxygen level improves metabolism of the organism tissues. In addition, the laser irradiation activates the ATP synthesis and energy formation in cells (A. S. Krjuk et al., 1986). Application of IV LBI in cardiology has shown that procedures have analgetic effect, show reliable rising tolerance of patients towards physical tolerance test, elongation of the period of remission. It was proved that the laser reduces aggregation ability of thrombocytes, activates fibrinolysis, which results in peripheral blood flow velocity increasing and tissues oxygenation enriching. The improvement of microcirculation and utilisation of oxygen in tissues as a result of the laser is intimately linked with positive influence on metabolism: higher level of oxidation of energy-carrying molecules of glucose, pyruvate, and other substances.

… unblocking of capillaries, positive pre- and post-surgical operations effects
The improvement in microcirculation system is also stipulated by vasodilation and change in rheological properties of blood as a result of drop of its viscosity, decrease of aggregation activity of erythrocytes due to changes of their physicochemical properties, in particular rising of negative electric charge. Finally the activation of microcirculation, unblocking of capillaries and collaterals, improvement of tissue trophical activity, normalisation of a nervous excitability take place (N. N. Kapshidze et al., 1993). TSLT is recommended to apply before surgical operations as preparation for intervention, as well as in the postoperative stage, because the laser irradiation of blood has not only analgetic effect, but also spasmolytic and sedative activity.

…regeneration and reparation of cells, incl. inner genital organs
Our laser procedures have found broad application in obstetrics and gynaecology for activation the blood flow in utero-placental and feto-placental basins, for prophylaxis of the pathologies at delivery, for influence on inflammatory processes of inner genital organs. The laser normalises production of gonadotropins, improves microcirculation, elevates oxygen pressure in blood and in tissues, and so accelerates the process of regeneration and reparation.

…increase functional activity of the hypothalamus and positive effects on the activation of energetic, metabolism, immune and vegetative responses.
In order to explain the generalised and multifactor effects of the laser, its positive influence practically on all tissues and functional systems of the body, clinical effectiveness for the treatment of different diseases, some authors mentioned that the improvement of microcirculation after TSTL is detected in all structures of central nervous system, but this improvement is most active in the hypothalamus, which has highly developed vascular system. The capillaries of a hypothalamus are remarkable for high permeability for macro-molecular proteins, which should even more amplify influence of the irradiated blood to subthalamic nuclei. So it is supposed, that TSLT increases the functional activity of hypothalamus and all limbic system, and as a result the activation of energetic, metabolism, immune and vegetative responses, mobilization of adaptive reserves of an organism is reached.

After 24 hours, this inoculated XLD agar culture plate cultivated colonial growth of Gram-negative, rod-shaped and facultatively anaerobic Salmonella sp. bacteria. Picture courtesy CDC, Atlanta


We tend to think that the horrors of destroying and/or killing bacterial diseases belong into the past. Plague, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Cholera … diseases which killed or disabled huge portions of the world population just died down! The bacteria, that causes these diseases are still there and minor outbreaks (at least ‘minor’ for now) happen.


LINKS


to go to Nutrition London CLICK HERE
visit the Virus Medical Clinic London
visit the Parasite Clinic London CLICK HERE
to go the STOP-READY-MEALS campaign CLICK HERE
to go to the IBS website CLICK HERE
visit the Fungus and Yeast Clinic London
to go to the Immune Clinic London.com CLICK HERE
visit Ageless Technologies Laser Clinic


LIST OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS
BACTERIA
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
Actinomadura madurae
Actinomadura pelletieri
Actinomyces gerencseriae
Actinomyces israelii
Actinomyces pyogenes
Actinomyces spp
Alcaligenes spp
Arcanobacterium haemolyticum
(Corynebacterium haemolyticum)
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus cereus
Bacteroides fragilis
Bacteroides spp
Bartonella bacilliformis
Bartonella quintana (Rochalimaea quintana)
Bartonella spp (Rochalimaea spp)
Bordetella bronchiseptica
Bordetella parapertussis
Bordetella pertussis
Borrelia burgdorferi
Borrelia duttonii
Borrelia recurrentis
Borrelia spp
Brucella abortus
Brucella canis
Brucella melitensis
Brucella suis
Burkholderia cepacia
Burkholderia mallei (Pseudomonas mallei)
Burkholderia pseudomallei
(Pseudomonas pseudomallei)
Campylobacter fetus
Campylobacter jejuni
Campylobacter spp
Cardiobacterium hominis
Chlamydia pneumoniae
Chlamydia psittaci (non avian strains)
Chlamydia psittaci (avian strains)
Chlamydia trachomatis
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium difficile
Clostridium perfringens
Clostridium tetan
Clostridium spp
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Corynebacterium minutissimum
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
Corynebacterium spp
Coxiella burnetii
Edwardsiella tarda
Ehrlichia sennetsu (Rickettsia sennetsu)
Ehrlichia spp
Eikenella corrodens
Enterobacter aerogenes/cloacae
Enterobacter spp
Enterococcus spp
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
Escherichia coli (with the exception of
non-pathogenic strains)
Escherichia coli, verocytotoxigenic strains
(eg O157:H7 or O103)
Flavobacterium meningosepticum
Fluoribacter bozemanae (formerly Legionella)
Francisella tularensis (Type A)
Francisella tularensis (Type B)
Fusobacterium necrophorum
Fusobacterium spp
Gardnerella vaginalis
Haemophilus ducreyi
Haemophilus influenzae
Haemophilus spp
Helicobacter pylori
Klebsiella oxytoca
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Klebsiella spp
Legionella pneumophila
Legionella spp
Leptospira interrogans (all serovars)
Listeria ivanovii
Listeria monocytogenes
Moraxella catarrhalis
Morganella morganii
Mycobacterium africanum
Mycobacterium avium/intracellulare
Mycobacterium bovis (BCG strain)
Mycobacterium bovis
Mycobacterium chelonae
Mycobacterium fortuitum
Mycobacterium kansasii
Mycobacterium leprae
Mycobacterium malmoense
Mycobacterium marinum
Mycobacterium microti
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis
Mycobacterium scrofulaceum
Mycobacterium simiae
Mycobacterium szulgai
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mycobacterium ulcerans
Mycobacterium xenopi
Mycoplasma caviae
Mycoplasma hominis
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Neisseria meningitidis
Nocardia asteroides
Nocardia brasiliensis
Nocardia farcinica
Nocardia nova
Nocardia otitidiscaviarum
Pasteurella multocida
Pasteurella spp
Peptostreptococcus anaerobius
Peptostreptococcus spp
Plesiomonas shigelloides
Porphyromonas spp
Prevotella spp
Proteus mirabilis
Proteus penneri
Proteus vulgaris
Providencia alcalifaciens
Providencia rettgeri
Providencia spp
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas mallei
- see Burkholderia mallei
Pseudomonas pseudomallei
- see Burkholderia pseudomallei
Rhodococcus equi
Rickettsia akari
Rickettsia canada
Rickettsia conorii
Rickettsia montana
Rickettsia prowazekii
Rickettsia rickettsii
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
Rickettsia sennetsu
- see Ehrlichia sennetsu
Rickettsia typhi (Rickettsia mooseri)
Rickettsia spp
Rochalimaea quintana
- see Bartonella quintana
Rochalimaea spp
Salmonella arizonae
Salmonella enteritidis
Salmonella (other serovars)
Salmonella paratyphi A,B,C
Salmonella typhi
Salmonella typhimurium
Serpulina spp
Shigella boydii
Shigella dysenteriae (Type 1)
Shigella dysenteriae (other than Type 1)
Shigella flexneri
Shigella sonnei
Staphylococcus aureus
Streptobacillus moniliformis
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Streptococcus pyogenes
Streptococcus suis
Streptococcus spp
Treponema carateum
Treponema pallidum
Treponema pertenue
Treponema spp
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Vibrio cholerae (including El Tor)
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Vibrio spp
Yersinia enterocolitica
Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Yersinia spp