Morgellons disease is a chronic skin
disease known to be associated with Lyme disease.
To date Dr Mayne has had 16 patients in
the practice load with this skin condition.
In November 2011 he gave a talk on the
condition at the annual meeting of the Cardiff University
Dermatology Continuing Professional Development Society on the proposed
keratin formation of Morgellons' fibres based upon his own findings including
electron microscopy of a fibre, and also a recently published article on this
matter that compares the disease to Bovine Digital dermatitis which is known
and documented to be caused by spirochaetal infection. The article is
available at http://www.dovepress.com/articles.php?article_id=8655
In march 2012 he gave an expanded
version of the above talk at the annual conference of the Charles Holman
Foundation. He now serves as an adviser to the foundation.
For further information on Morgellons
please go to http://www.thecehf.org/
Morgellons disease has been labelled in the
past as dermatitis artefacta and also delusional parasitosis. There are
other causes of these skin conditions. However, in
those people with Morgellons, there has been a failure by dermatologists and
general practitioners to
examine the skin with at least x60 microscopy to detect the filaments, and
also a failure to detect cranial nerve symptoms, signs and abnormalities that are found in Lyme
disease. In Australia Lyme disease is almost entirely a neurological condition
as it is in Asia and Europe.