Bartenderbonnie
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What garbage !!!! These are children lives !!!!
Why are they still wasting time, money, and resourses conducting useless research with the flawed out-dated two-tiered Lyme disease serology . . . the C6 peptide ELISA and western blot IgG/IgM ?
According to IGeneX (leading Tick Borne Infection lab) " Lyme disease is diagnosised by a two-tiered testing approach involving enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) followed by Western Blot test. Unfortunately the sensitivity of these commercially available tests are POOR."
Of coarse, we KNOW this, but the authors of this article know this too as they state IN this article, " The newer C6 ELISA is a newer first-tiered line Lyme test that has similar sensitivity but higher specificity in children than older generation first-tiered Lyme disease tests, however the C6 ELISA does not have sufficient specificity to be used as a stand alone test."
Same ole garage, different day.
The purpose of the study was to calculate the percentages of Lyme disease in children in epidemic areas randomly.
How random was this study ? You be the judge.
"The children in this study often come from urban and suburban areas clustered around the hospital where they are less frequently exposed to ticks."
"Children who reported a history of clinically diagnosised Lyme disease, did not have a positive serology."
"All children in this study who had evidence of infection were EXCLUDED from this study."
In other words, their random testing wasn't so random.
If you have a child who is showing symptoms of Lyme disease, please seek out a LLMD and avoid all of the places listed in Tincup's previous post.
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How about Yale-New Haven Hospital in CT? I haven't heard good things about them.
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LisaK
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sigh... when will it change???????
meanwhile my niece suffers and no one ever listens to the truth.
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