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Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

BARTONELLA TESTS- AS BAD OR WORSE THAN LYME TESTS

And this is a CDC study too!

QUOTE- "Of the 80 patients with suspected CSD, 17 (21.3%) were serologically positive for B. henselae by IFA.

B. henselae DNA was amplified from the peripheral blood of 11 (13.8%) patients by rPCR.

This assay detected all 56 specimens evaluated as B. henselae (10), but other Bartonella species were not identified (9)."

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/5/15-2033_article

Posted by MissVictoria (Member # 45232) on :

There is a special lab in NJ that tests for Bartonella.

Posted by t9im (Member # 25489) on :

Hi Tincup:

Without naming Lab's on 9 separate occasions we had Bart testing done where one lab came back positive and the other negative. I'm looking at a chart with 16 tests over a 4 year period.

On 5 of the occasions the Lab's reversed as to which was positive versus negative. By this Lab X which was positive on test 1 while Lab Y was negative on the next draw / test Lab X became negative while Lab Y results turned positive.

On only 1 occasion of the 16 tests did both labs come back positive.