(25% of ticks collected/tests carry Bb) (the original article was in the Houston Chronicle and other publications).
So which is it? 1% 25% 45% ???
Problems with sequencing. Sounds familiar to me as in Advanced Laboratory Services culture test vs the CDC. (I had a positive culture from specimen sent in end of 2011).
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I corrected the link a few times. Still a no-go? Tutu - do you have a way to post the article from FB? (computer dumb dumb here).
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The Houston Chronicle article basically says be careful as 45% of deer ticks in S. Texas have tested positive for the agent that causes Lyme Disease. Symptoms listed.
I thought 45% sounded frighteningly (word?) high - so did a quick search and found the restraction website.
That one is the "must read".
Also did not know there was also a dispute over the 25% reported by Texas A&M from a few years ago. I thought that number was accepted.
But there are naysayers - of course. What is the truth?
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I got lyme in Arlington. I would assume it is probably true that we are in, or moving towards a serious public health crisis here.
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Calling for a retraction is not the same as a retraction.
The other side routinely does this in order to cast doubt on results they don't like, as in the ones that make people realize lyme is a real threat, etc.
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At least one party who made the request for retraction has an unreported conflict of interest. It is possible that the research finding 45% of Texas Ixodes scapularis ticks to be infected with Lyme contradicts the positive rate found by the diagnostic test on which his patent is based. The request also speculates that the TAMU lab was contaminated with Bb, but the strain he mentions was not introduced to the lab. The research at TAMU on the ticks was carried out with the highest possible standards and the article went through many revisions and tests before being accepted by Parasites & Vectors. It mirrors the empirical evidence of patients. Other recent research has found a large discrepancy between cases of Lyme (based on reported cases)in Texas vs. predictions of cases based on probable tick habitat. Reasons for the discrepancy were not given, but one speculation was that the tests were not picking up all cases. We know they can miss up to 60%, so this is not surprising. Those of us in the Texas Lyme community welcome the TAMU research for demonstrating that Lyme is a bigger problem here than the reported cases (based on ELISA followed by Western Blot)suggest.
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