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Western Blot Band 41 Positive - But Not Borrelia

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For anyone exploring the dungeons of the forum to find diagnose for their test results- like @msf i strongly advice against starting some long, multi-abx lyme treatment(which is extremly harmful to the body), based only on having OspC or P41 antigens on western-blot test. ospc&p41 are not specific to boriella and can cross-react with few other infections(few of them are very popular among people with me/cfs). It seems logical to test for those cross-reactive infections, if you have those non-specific antigens with an absences of specific lyme antigens, here are some articles:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-3083.2001.00893.x
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567134821000903
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7504314/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1597198/
+ i found 2 other articles claiming that certain antigens may cross-react with some viruses like ebv, but i dont have link to it
*found one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8879713/ so (ebv,cmv,bkv)

probably 5 minutes of googling cross-reactivity of certain boriella antignes will give you some others pathogens that might affect the results of test