Thousands could have Lyme disease without knowing

[TrixieStix]

I am excited by this technology. For early stage, it appears robust, and the numbers are very encouraging.

I have a concern that if there is a weakness, it may manifest in late stage cases. Conventional wisdom is that Bb tends to flee fluids like blood (or urine?), and has a tropism for tissue. Hopefully tests like this will belie or overcome that. Or, it may act similar to a PCR, in that, if you register a positive, it will be hard to dispute; but having a negative, for late stage cases, might prove little definitively. What are they quoting? 88%? Still very impressive.

yeah I saw others expressing concern this many not be as great for detecting the antigen in later stages. Ceres seems to focus on it's use for detecting infection in the "early stage" on their website.

 

[IreneF]

"Some other well-known species of Borrelia include Borrelia recurrentis, Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia miyamotoi, which are all associated with Relapsing fever, which is another infectious disease"

@TrixieStix
Thanks

 

[TrixieStix]

There were an article (behind a pay wall) about Ceres Nanotrap Lyme test. Below is the headline...

Ceres Nanosciences Working to Move Lyme Dx Into Point-of-Care

And here is another article published on Feb 14th... (they hope to gain FDA approval in 2 years)

http://www.checkorphan.org/news/cer...investment-in-nanotrap-r-to-test-lyme-disease