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Detecting the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi, in Ticks Using Nested PCR
Published on: February 4, 2018
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Lyme Disease Testing Practices, Wisconsin, USA, 2016-2019
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|June 25, 2025
Abstract
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Positive laboratory results are increasingly used for Lyme disease surveillance in the United States. We found 6%-15% of persons with a positive test each year tested positive in a prior year; repeat testing frequency increased with patient age. Repeat testing of persons with previous seropositivity could affect surveillance data interpretation.
Keywords:
Borrelia burgdorferiLyme diseaseUnited StatesWisconsinbacterialaboratory testingsurveillancevector-borne infectionszoonoses
