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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:17:37 EST
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- From: Roger Burns <BFU@NIHCU.BITNET>
- Subject: Lyme testing
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- > Start off with antibody testing (ELISA *AND* Western Blot) and see what the
- > results are (keeping in mind that accuracy will be rather pathetic).
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- Can you tell us more about these tests? Someone else who has posted
- Lyme info to this list, whose name somehow slips my mind, has said that
- "Lyme tests" need to be taken several times and even then they are
- unreliable; I presume now that this was a reference to ELISA and Western
- Blot antibody tests? Do these tests give false positives, or false
- negatives? Or both? Is there any consensus along the lines of 'If you
- take 5 consecutive tests and 4 of them are positive then you've probably
- got Lyme'?
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