disseminated Lyme borreliosis – F.I.G.H.T for your health! http://lymebook.com/fight Linda Heming describes her Lyme disease healing journey Wed, 06 Nov 2013 05:54:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 Direct detection of Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes in Early Lyme http://lymebook.com/fight/direct-detection-of-borrelia-burgdorferi-spirochetes-in-early-lyme/ http://lymebook.com/fight/direct-detection-of-borrelia-burgdorferi-spirochetes-in-early-lyme/#respond Mon, 03 May 2010 05:28:06 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=1036 Excerpt:

The detection of spirochetes in 15 patients with clinically
documented early disseminated LB has been analyzed when using
cultivation method of the plasma or the cerebrospinal fluid,
electron microscopy, commercial Western blot and detecting the
DNA of the pathogen in vitro cultures by PCR-RFLP. Spirochetes
were isolated in eight blood and one cerebrospinal fluid culture
samples.

*In seven cases (47%), previous serodiagnostic laboratory tests
were negative*

Full article: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=20377044&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

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