"Lyme tests look not for the bacteria but for antibodies, which the immune system makes to attack the microbe. Now researchers are looking more intensely for the bacterium itself in people, hoping to resolve whether the organism, or some remnant of it, makes some people sick. That number includes only people who get positive or probable test results using CDC diagnostic criteria; Lyme activists say there are thousands more people who are missed because the government’s criteria are too narrow. In animal studies, the Lyme spirochete pulled from the animals could not be grown in the lab. But in the mouse study, the ticks were able to transmit the live spirochete to other mice."
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:43:55 +0000
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