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Home / Health / Conditions and Diseases / Infectious Diseases / Spirochetal / Lyme Disease / Diagnostic Testing
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- BBI Clinical Laboratories - Independent specialty clinical reference laboratory offering detection, confirmation, identification of tick-borne diseases including Lyme disease, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, human monocytic ehrlichiosis, and babesia. Includes information about tests.
www.bbii.com/docsvr/docviewer.asp?DT=BC&DI=83
- ELISA and Western Blot: Lies that can kill you? - Editorial about serological testing for Lyme disease by Thomas Grier. From "Spotlight on Lyme", newsletter of the Lyme Alliance.
www.centurytel.net/tjs11/bug/blot1.htm#n3
- IGeneX, Inc. Reference Laboratory - For health professionals and patients alike to better understand laboratory assays for Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases, rheumatology, autoimmunity, and allergy. Located in Palo Alto, California.
www.igenex.com
- Labodia SA: Review of Lyme Disease Laboratory Tests - Labodia SA, located in Yens, Switzerland, manufactures and distributes various diagnostic test kits for Lyme disease and other diseases. Explanations of some Lyme disease tests.
www.labodia.com/en/lyme/review_en/introduction_en.htm
- Lyme Disease Test Kits: Potential for Misdiagnosis - Article published in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Bulletin, Summer 1999.
www.fda.gov/medbull/summer99/Lyme.html
- Medical Diagnostic Labs Services: Tick-Borne Diseases - Topics include discussions of tests for Lyme disease, babesia, and ehrlichia, differentiating between tick-borne diseases, the role of PCR test, and preventing tick-borne diseases. MDL is located in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey.
www.mdlab.com/fees&servs/serv-ticks.html
- Recommendations for Test Performance and Interpretation...on Serologic - A two-test approach for active disease and for previous infection using a sensitive enzyme immunoassay (EIA) or immunofluorescent assay (IFA) followed by a Western immunoblot, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), August 11, 1995.
wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0038469/m0038469.asp
- Specialty Laboratories - Test Methodology Guide - Brief summaries of various tests including Indirect Fluorescent Antibody (IFA), Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), and Immunoblot/Western Blot (WB). Laboratory located in Santa Monica, California.
www.specialtylabs.com/test/methodology.asp?id=8944
- Study shows Lyme testing has long way to go - Summary of study, Interlaboratory Comparison of Test Results for Detection of Lyme Disease..., published in Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Results, Summer 1997.
www.slh.wisc.edu/results/results_old/97_summer/lyme.html
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