roxie60
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This study I referred to would seem to show that Igenex were selling unreliable tests.
Since then, there do not seem to have been assessments of their testing published. This does not inspire much confidence.
Follow the money....who benefits if IGenex is discredited? Also they have done enough testing to claim 92-97% specificity depending on the test. What is ELISA something like 55% (my memory may be in question but it is much lower than the IGenex tests and nearly all general doctors and some specialist still use it. Seems like ELISA is basically useless, unless one knows they had a tick bite within a couple of weeks of seeing a doctor. But then someone in power benefits every time an ELISA test is run and in nearly half the cases it is a useless use of time, money and blood draw.