Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease

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May 2008

If we now return to our patient case you’ll remember that the screen EIA was positive so the testing laboratory appropriately reflects the specimen to Western blot for supplementary testing. The results of the Western blot were as follows: The IgM was interpreted as positive and the IgG was reported as negative.

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