To test or not to test? Laboratory support for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis - Author's reply

Ram B. Dessau; Alje P. van Dam; Volker Fingerle; Jeremy Gray; Joppe Hovius; Klaus-Peter Hunfeld; Benoit Jaulhac; Olaf Kahl; Wolfgang Kristoferitsch; Per-Eric Lindgren; Mateusz Markowicz; Sally Mavin; Katharina Ornstein; Tobias Rupprecht; Gerold Stanek; Franc Strle

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2017.10.011

To test or not to test? Laboratory support for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis - Author's reply

Ram B. Dessau
, Alje P. van Dam
, Volker Fingerle
, Jeremy Gray
, Joppe Hovius
, Klaus-Peter Hunfeld
, Benoit Jaulhac
, Olaf Kahl
, Wolfgang Kristoferitsch
, Per-Eric Lindgren
, Mateusz Markowicz
, Sally Mavin
, Katharina Ornstein
, Tobias Rupprecht
, Gerold Stanek
, Franc Strle

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As stated in the recent review antibodies are expected to develop in almost all patients within 6-8 weeks and the negative predictive value is very high. This is well supported in the literature. Thus, testing for borrelia specific antibodies may, as explained in detail in the review, effectively rule out Lyme borreliosis, and other diagnostic possibilities should be considered. A warning concerning "deceptive Lyme disease diagnosis" is presented

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	211-212
Journal	Clinical microbiology and infection
Volume	24
Issue number	2
Early online date	2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2017.10.011
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Dessau, R. B., van Dam, A. P., Fingerle, V., Gray, J., Hovius, J., Hunfeld, K.-P., Jaulhac, B., Kahl, O., Kristoferitsch, W., Lindgren, P.-E., Markowicz, M., Mavin, S., Ornstein, K., Rupprecht, T., Stanek, G., & Strle, F. (2018). To test or not to test? Laboratory support for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis - Author's reply. Clinical microbiology and infection, 24(2), 211-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2017.10.011

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