Letters
Lyme wars
Let's tackle the testing
BMJ 2007; 335 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39394.676227.BE (Published 15 November 2007) Cite this as: BMJ 2007;335:1008
- Raphael B Stricker, past president1,
- Lorraine Johnson, executive director2
- 1International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA
- 2California Lyme Disease Association, Los Angeles, CA 90068, USA
- rstricker{at}usmamed.com
The two tier testing system endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a high specificity (99%) and yields few false positives. But the tests have a uniformly miserable sensitivity …
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