Does anyone know if the lab Dr. B uses to send skin rash cultures to for PCR is MDL in New Jersey?
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Posted by hshbmom (Member # 9478) on :
Biopsies of the skin rash can be sent to Igenex in California. Don't take the biopsies from the center of the tick bite.
Be sure to take the biopsy of the EM from the inner edge of the advancing lesion. The rash spreads out; the outer edge is where the bacteria are actively multiplying. You want to take the biopsy just inside this advancing edge.
Biopsies obtained during an upper endoscoptic exam were sent to MDL of NJ. PCR tests were done on the biopsies.