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Melanie Reber
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Natural killer cell counts are not different between patients with post-Lyme disease syndrome and controls
Adriana Marques, Margaret R. Brown, and Thomas A. Fleisher
Clin. Vaccine Immunol. doi:10.1128/CVI.00167-09

Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD; Immunology Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD

It has been reported that patients with "chronic Lyme disease" have decreased number of natural killer cells, as defined by the CD57 marker.

We performed immunophenotyping in 9 individuals with post-Lyme disease syndrome, 12 who recovered from Lyme disease and 9 healthy volunteers. The number of natural killer cells was not significantly different between the groups

(thanks LymeInfo)

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northstar
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Heck, they spent money for this?
All they had to do was check into lymenet to find
that the CD57 is not even a reliable indicator of even active lyme status!

But I am sure they are not interested in that bit of info, since what they are looking for is no difference between groups, to prove their point of
post LD not being from active lyme.

My they are busy these days! I wonder why.
North

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nomoremuscles
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Probably to discredit Dr. S who will be presenting at IDSA.

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seekhelp
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What kind of study has only 21 people? [Smile]

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