To test or not to test? Laboratory support for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis – Author's reply
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The lymphocyte transformation test for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis has currently not been shown to be clinically useful.
I would like to comment on the letter from Dessau et al.: “Lymphocyte transformation test for diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis is currently not documented to be clinically useful” [1]. I wish to thank Dessau and colleagues for their interest in our study and am very pleased that they confirm that the lymphocyte transformation test (LTT) shows a high specificity in seronegative cases [1]. Especiall...
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Diagnosis of active Lyme borreliosis (LB) remains a challenge in clinically ambiguous, serologically indeterminant, and polymerase chain reaction-negative patients. Lymphocyte transformation tests (LTTs) have been applied to detect specific cellular immune reactivity, but their clinical application has been severely hampered by the poorly defined Borrelia antigens and nonstandardized LTT format...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology and Infection
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1198-743X
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.10.011