Conventional Lyme disease testing is through blood analysis, and it has proven so ineffective there's a law in Virginia that requires doctors to tell patients of the tests shortcomings.
Researchers at Ceres Nanosciences, a spinoff of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., have developed a novel approach that pinpoints the presence of Lyme disease antigens in urine previously undetectable. The new technology is revolutionary because it uses nanotechnology to trap the antigens, binding them together before they can degrade in the body. Such aggregation then allows detection.
The company has been offering the test — albeit with limited access — for more than a year, but hopes to branch out with point of care version, meaning a local lab or doctor's office would be able to provide results.
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Get it out there! Far too many people have been misdiagnosed or not diagnosed when they have Lyme, using the other tests, which are hardly more than moneymakers for labs.
ReplyDeleteLime disease is a fake illness. Doctors can't even diagnose people that "have" it. Bunch of wimpy people with allergy to hard work and the outdoors. Same ones that can't eat peanuts/gluten/lactose etc. God would let them die in the past, now they roam among us.
ReplyDelete11:52 Your are a tool!!! They have FINALLY announced that the deer tick also carries a more deadly infection that does not cause a round rash but can cause severe mental disorders. If you think that lyme disease if fake you need to be checked...you may have the other disease. BTW It would be understandable that you would spell it LIME in that case.
ReplyDeleteHow did people survive for the past 300 years in MD? Ticks didn't just arrive 15 years ago with lyme disease. I grew up in country and have spent 60 years working, playing and hunting in the woods. Had thousands of ticks on me over the years. Never had or got lyme disease but little johnny who lives in in a development and mommy drives him the the end of the street to get on the school bus gets one tick on him and now has lyme disease. BS.
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