ArticleClinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology2013
Characterization and evolution of dermal filaments from patients with Morgellons disease.
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- Dermatological and Genital Manifestations of Lyme Disease Including Morgellons Disease.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2021Article
- Classification and Staging of Morgellons Disease: Lessons from Syphilis.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2020Article
- MixedHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2018Review
- Detection of tick-borne infection in Morgellons disease patients by serological and molecular techniques.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2018Article
- Morgellons Disease.Annals of dermatology · 2017Article
- Morgellons disease: a filamentous borrelial dermatitis.International journal of general medicine · 2016Review
- Exploring the association between Morgellons disease and Lyme disease: identification of Borrelia burgdorferi in Morgellons disease patients.BMC dermatology · 2015Article
- Clinical determinants of Lyme borreliosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, anaplasmosis, and ehrlichiosis in an Australian cohort.International journal of general medicine · 2015Article
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- Cutaneous factitia in elderly patients: alarm signal for psychiatric disorders.Clinical interventions in aging · 2014Article
- Relevance of chronic lyme disease to family medicine as a complex multidimensional chronic disease construct: a systematic review.International journal of family medicine · 2014Review
- Association of spirochetal infection with Morgellons disease.F1000Research · 2013Article
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Abstract
Morgellons disease is an emerging skin disease characterized by formation of dermal filaments associated with multisystemic symptoms and tick-borne illness. Some clinicians hypothesize that these often colorful dermal filaments are textile fibers, either self-implanted by patients or accidentally adhering to lesions, and conclude that patients with this disease have delusions of infestation. We present histological observations and electron microscopic imaging from representative Morgellons disease samples revealing that dermal filaments in these cases are keratin and collagen in composition and result from proliferation and activation of keratinocytes and fibroblasts in the epidermis. Spirochetes were detected in the dermatological specimens from our study patients, providing evidence that Morgellons disease is associated with an infectious process.
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