Medicare should cover blood tests doctors use to diagnose Lyme disease when a doctor or professional enrolled with Medicare considers them medically necessary. Typically, Medicare Part B should ...

Researchers have discovered that an enzyme can serve as an ideal target for developing new therapeutics against Lyme disease, ...

Researchers are seeking thousands of volunteers in the United States and Europe to test the first potential vaccine against Lyme disease in ... delay gives time for antibodies the tick ingests ...

It’s complicated. One of the major reasons for this is that the testing for Lyme disease is imperfect. The most commonly used tests are antibody tests, which measure the human immune system’s ...

What initially seems like purely psychological trouble may indeed have roots in physical conditions that, once identified, ...

fine-tuning the particles and testing their affinity for Lyme-causing bacterial proteins in urine. Her hard work paid off with a published paper (Biomaterials, 32:1157-66, 2011), and clinical trials ...

Conclusions Our study using multiple detection methods confirms that MD is a true somatic illness associated with Borrelia spirochetes that cause Lyme disease. Further studies are needed to ...

The antibody tests available in the Netherlands are reliable, according to this doctoral research. However, it is important to test only in case of symptoms specific for Lyme disease and a real chance ...

Lyme disease is increasing in both incidence and geographic distribution. Given that the etiologic agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, is difficult to culture in routine clinical laboratories ...

has marketed several enzyme immunoassay tests, including two for the presence of the HIV-1 antibody. Its Human Lyme EIA kit detects the IgM and lgG antibodies that indicate the presence of Lyme ...