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American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc.

American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 466
Lyme, CT 06371


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.
  • "Executive Summary: 2nd Banbury Conference on the Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease", September 9-12, 2007
  • "Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease"
    R. B. Porwancher
    (A feature article written exclusively for posting on the ALDF website 12/9/08)
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • "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.
  • “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
  • "Lyme disease – current state of knowledge"
    Nau, R, Christen, H-J, and Eiffert, H.
    Dtsch. Arztebl. Int. 106: 72-82, 2009
  • "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