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Discussion about Armin labs (Split Thread).

paolo

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Regarding the above, which admittedly I only skim-read, I think it's perhaps interesting to note that personally I had a negative response on Armin's LTT, and then retested after a couple of weeks of Doxycycline and was positive. I recall others detailing similar experiences to the point of it seeming like a fairly common occurrence, and so I wonder if it is not possible that the antibiotics were a driving factor towards increased probability of cross-reactivity and hence the false-positives. Either way I'm quite sure I never had Lyme.

My guess here is that the use of antibiotics leads to disruption in gut flora, with a release of bacterial fragments in the circulation, which in turn induces a temporary T cell activation against bacterial antigens. This is what is then detected by the LTT.
 
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