'In 1986, Shyh-Ching Lo, claimed to have isolated a new virus from AIDS patients with Kaposi’s sarcoma...
It turned out that Lo had not discovered a virus. Instead, he appears to have found evidence of another type of microorganism, known as a mycoplasma.'
latimes.com/archives/la-xp… Doctors, nurses, lab researchers, as well as others who come in casual contact with Gulf War veterans, say they’ve contracted the same symptoms--fatigue, fever, aches, rashes & respiratory problems--that are generally associated with “Gulf War syndrome.”
latimes.com/archives/la-xp… The early mycoplasma infection stage shares a common phenomenon w/ many other acute infections, genes...Aberrant expression of oncogenes & tumour repressors plays a key role in mycoplasma-induced malignant transformation. - 2006
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… Patents by Inventor Shyh-Ching Lo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions.
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patents.justia.com/inventor/shyh-… 2017 - Intraspecies comparative genomics of three strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi (OT) with different antibiotic sensitivity
researchgate.net/figure/The-gen…
Author: Lo, Shyh-Ching
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NZ_LYM… Orientia tsutsugamushi. Due to the absence of peptidoglycan, the bacterium is naturally resistant to all β-lactam antibiotics (such as penicillin)...The bacterium is highly virulent, such that its isolation & cell culture are done only in a BSL3 facility.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientia_…