Re:Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial G...
by pmjordan on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:38AM
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but if your tests for Lyme were negative, it wasn't Lyme (borreliosis).
Depends on the test. The ELISA test is cheap but extremely unreliable. ELISPOT/LTT seems to be the most reliable antibody test out there, at least for European strains. If the latter also came back negative, the evidence would indeed suggest this wasn't a Lyme infection but something else.
Depends on the test. The ELISA test is cheap but extremely unreliable. ELISPOT/LTT seems to be the most reliable antibody test out there, at least for European strains. If the latter also came back negative, the evidence would indeed suggest this wasn't a Lyme infection but something else.