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ELISA LAM -- TB OUTBREAK?
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[quote:eos:MV8yMTQ5MTE0XzM2MzE1NjY4Xzc0ODNCRUMy] okie, just following along and thought i'd at least iron out a couple of issues: ELISA is a type of laboratory testing, and if you did your homework, you will have seen that by now. LAM is the name of the specific ELISA bio-assay test for a component of a tuberculin bacterium: ""This immunoassay kit allows for the in vitro quantitative determination of human Lipoarabinomannan,LAM concentrations in cell culture supernates, serum, plasma and other biological fluids."" This test, the LAM-ELISA, represents a fast and efficient way means of detecting positive for infection of tuberculin bacterium, and is especially significant because of the importance of evaluating an HIV positive patient, especially among homeless or otherwise medically untreated and non-compliant individuals. Why is this important? Because while tb is somewhat contagious to all, it is especially so to those with compromised immune systems, and is especially virulent in such a patient, who is at even higher risk of being lost to the system, and a vector to the community. The earliest reference i found to the LAM-ELISA test was 2006-2007, a pediatric study. As for 19-year old Elisa Lam, other than being Asian, she would not seem to have any risk factors for either HIV or tuberculosis. I mention Asian not as a risk factor, but because "silent" tuberculosis is more common in Asian countries, so anyone in regular contact with visitors to and from Asian countries has an elevated risk. So, while the coincidence of her name and death alongside the "emergence" of a virulent form of TB approaches cosmic, it does not at all mean that she had even one bacillus of tuberculosis on or in her body, nor that this would create any risk to those who used the cistern water while her body decomposed there. This is why the testing was for the bacteria that would be associated with organic breakdown, basically coliform bacteria. [/quote]
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Decomposing body found in water tank that of Elisa Lam..
Hotel guests/residents were drinking/ingesting, bathing etc. with this water.
TB test, which is for a particular form of TB (that can be contracted by ingesting)
MIRRORS HER NAME.
Hotel Cecil, Downtown LA
ELISA LAM.
TB outbreak, Downtown LA
LAM ELISA (Name of test)
ELISA LAM= LAM ELISA
Can't ignore this coincidence..
Who are these people infected with this TB?
Are they people at the hotel??
Is it really medicine/drug resistant??
When was the name of this test determined??
Is this the start of something large? Was this done on purpose?
Thread: Corpse found in L.A. hotel's water tank
Thread: BREAKING: Thousands May Have Been Exposed to Deadly TB Epidemic in Downtown Los Angeles
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