Evaluation of Two‐Test Serodiagnostic Method for Early Lyme Disease in Clinical Practice
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Advances in Serodiagnostic Testing for Lyme Disease Are at Hand.
The cause of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, was discovered in 1983. A 2-tiered testing protocol was established for serodiagnosis in 1994, involving an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) or indirect fluorescence antibody, followed (if reactive) by immunoglobulin M and immunoglobulin G Western immunoblots. These assays were prepared from whole-cell cultured B. burgdorferi, lacking key in vivo express...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0022-1899,1537-6613
DOI: 10.1086/314663