In 2019, researchers reported Helicobacter pylori-associated findings in most of the Morgellons dermatological specimens they examined and described the organism alongside Borrelia burgdorferi in mixed biofilm-like aggregates. Seven years later, an untargeted metagenomic study reported broad Proteobacteria-associated patterns in Morgellons lesion material. Because H. pylori was historically classified among the Epsilonproteobacteria, the newer result appeared to point back toward the same broad bacterial territory. If that resemblance represented genuine independent convergence, it could have been one of the most intriguing developments in Morgellons research. I went looking for how far the evidence actually reached.
