SEM Images of Morgellons Patients’ Fibers and Lesions

Note: The following  8 SEM (Scanning Electron Micrograph) images were generated by Dr. Vitaly Citovsky's research group at SUNY Stonybrook.  We would like to thank Mark Darrah, Research Director of the Morgellons Project in Dr. Citovsky's lab, for arranging for the SEM imaging which was done at the Materials Science and Engineering Dept, Stony Brook University.   Dr Citovsky's group, under the direction of Mark, is continuing to research Morgellons disease and we will share new information from them as it becomes available to us.

                                                                           

Image 1: White Fiber – Calcite covered

 

                 

         

         Image 2: Green Fiber emitting microscopic Alumina “rock”

 

 

         Image 3: Ribbon-like fiber coated with minerals with a cylindrical fiber and faceted fiber adjacent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               

         Image 4: Skin Lesion of patient one with fibers stabbing through epidermis – note the smaller fibers

 

 

 

 

 

 

               

         Image 5: Skin lesion of patient two with large and small fibers as in patient one

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

         Image 6: Vesicles under epidermis of patient two connected by “filaments”

               

              Image 7: Lower magnification of vesicles from patient two

 

 

 

 

             

              Image 8: Vesicles under epidermis from patient one (blurred due to sample movment during SEM)