Dr. Chamberlin is a gastroenterologist at the San Antonio Military Medical Center in Texas. In his talk, he presents evidence of healing in Crohn’s disease patients treated with antibiotics. He also reviews some of the literature on antibiotic treatment in Crohn’s disease and discusses the flawed Selby antibiotic trial. “Do antibiotics have a positive effect on Crohn’s disease? Absolutely.”
2017 MAP Conference | Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Infection by MAP
Dr. J. Todd Kuenstner details 5 case studies of related patients diagnosed with combinations of Crohn’s disease, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Raynaud’s phenomenon, Type 1 Diabetes and Lymphangiomatosis who also tested positive for MAP. Two cases were successfully treated with antibiotics and ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy. A Q&A session follows the presentation.
2017 MAP Conference | Is MAP the Trigger in the Crohn’s Spectrum?
Dr. Harry Oken is an Internal Medicine practitioner and a professor at the University of Maryland. Here, he presents one of his most challenging cases which had some of the hallmarks of Crohn’s disease, and was eventually resolved by a regimen of 5 antibiotics. The patient tested positive for MAP, and Dr. Oken hypothesizes that the MAP infection damaged the nerves in the ileum, leading to disease. This report suggests that MAP may be able to cause a variety of chronic illnesses apart from Crohn’s disease.
2017 MAP Conference | Crohn’s Disease, MAP and the Kingdom of Bahrain
Dr. David Y. Graham is a gastroenterologist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Here, he details a long term study conducted on Crohn’s disease incidence in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Over time, the rate of Crohn’s disease increased significantly from 4.8 cases per 100,000 to 8.0 cases per 100,000. PCR (IS900 series) testing for MAP DNA in Crohn’s patients revealed that 76.7% were positive after 1 test, but when the researchers repeated the test up to 4 times, 100% of the Crohn’s patients eventually tested positive for MAP DNA. Imported beef and dairy may provide an explanation for the increase in disease.
2017 MAP Conference | Detection of MAP in Dairy Products, and Novel MAP Detection Methods with Potential Application to Blood Testing
Dr. Irene Grant is a Senior Lecturer in Microbiology and Food Safety at Queen’s University, Belfast Ireland. In her presentation, she explains and contrasts a variety of methods for detecting MAP in milk, details the latest advances from her lab including PMS-phage assay. which detects higher levels of MAP in milk and infant formula. Discussion of how PMS-phage assay for MAP could be applied to human blood samples and a Q&A session follows.