file.newsgroup.med.59107 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: How to Diagnose Lyme... really
In article [email protected] (Ralph Yozzo) writes:
>>Why do you think he would be called a quack? The quacks don't do cultures.
>>They poo-poo doing more lab tests: "this is Lyme, believe me, I've
>
>Are you arguing that the Lyme lab test is accurate?
If you culture out the spirochete, it is virtually 100% certain
the patient has Lyme. I suppose you could have contamination
in an exceptionally sloppy lab, but normally not. There are no
false positives.
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