American Lyme Disease Foundation

Diagnosis of Lyme disease: updates, issues, and insights

"Misdiagnosis of Lyme disease: when not to order serologic tests"
E.G. Seltzer and E.D. Shapiro
Ped. Infect. Dis. J. 15: 762-763, 1996.

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"Executive Summary: 2nd Banbury Conference on the Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease", September 9-12, 2007

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"Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease"
R. B. Porwancher
(A feature article written exclusively for posting on the ALDF website 12/9/08)

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"Straight Talk About the Diagnosis of Lyme Disease"
Phillip J. Baker, Executive Director, ALDF
(a feature article written exclusively for posting on the ALDF website, 3/13/09)

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"Comprehensive seroprofiling of sixteen B. burgdorferi OspC: implications for Lyme disease diagnostics design."
L. Ivanova, I. Christova, M. Aroso, et al. Clin. Immunol. 2009, July 1, ePub ahead of print.

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"The laboratory diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis: guidelines from the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network"
Canadian Public Health Network
Can. J. Infect. Dis. Med. Microbiol. 18: 145-148, 2007.

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“Practice parameter: treatment of nervous system Lyme disease (an evidenced-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology”
Halperin, JJ, Shapiro, G, Logigian, E, et al.
Neurology 69: 91-102, 2007

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"Lyme disease – current state of knowledge"
Nau, R, Christen, H-J, and Eiffert, H.
Dtsch. Arztebl. Int. 106: 72-82, 2009

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"2-tiered antibody testing for early and late Lyme disease
using only an immunoglobulin G blot with the addition of a
VlsE band as the second-tier test”.
Branda, JA, Aguero-Rosenfield, ME, Johnson, BJ, et al.
Clin Infect Dis. 50: 20-26, 2010

[Abstract]
"Rapid, simple, and quantitative, and highly sensitive antibody detection for Lyme disease"
P.D. Burbelo, A.T. Issa, K.H. Ching, J.I. Cohen, M.J. Iadarola, and A. Marques. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. 2010, April 14, Epub ahead of print
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“BBK07 immunodominant peptides as serodiagnostic markers of Lyme disease”
Coleman, A.S., Rossmann, E., Yang, X., et al.
Clin. Vaccine Immunol. 18: 406-413, 2011.
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"Unorthodox and Unvalidated Laboratory Tests in the Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis and in Relation to Medically Unexplained Symptom"
Duerden, B.I.
UK Health Protection Agency Official Report on Lyme Disease

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CDC cautions against certain commercial tests for Lyme disease

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