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Methods for Rapid Transfer and Localization of Lyme Disease Pathogens Within the Tick Gut
Published on: February 14, 2011
Laboratory tests for Lyme disease
1Department of Dermatology, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Dermatologic Clinics
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
The laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease has been problematic because of the lack of sufficient sensitivity and specificity of the many tests used as well as the lack of interlaboratory standardization in the performance of these tests. Although helpful, the laboratory tests can only serve to support the clinical findings in making the diagnosis of active Lyme disease, the exception being a positive culture of Borrelia Burgdorferi.
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