Tag Archives: Lyme Disease
Tick bites: Scarier than ghosts and goblins
This Halloween when you see vampires and zombies, remember that nature can be the best at being gross. A recent post in the New York Times includes a video that helps explain how the ticks that carry Lyme disease are … Continue reading
Lyme disease study from Pharmasan Labs selected as 2013 feature paper
Cells, a peer-reviewed, international, open access journal, has selected Pharmasan Labs’ research study entitled “An Enhanced ELISPOT Assay for Sensitive Detection of Antigen-Specific T-Cell Responses to Borrelia burgdorferi” as a Feature Paper of 2013. Feature Papers are selected for their … Continue reading
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Tagged Cells, ELISPOT, Lyme, Lyme Disease, Pharmasan Labs, T-cell
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Lyme disease infection rate ten times higher than previously reported
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released preliminary results of three ongoing studies indicating Lyme disease infection is ten times higher than previous studies showed. In a press release on Monday, August 19, 2013, the CDC stated … Continue reading
iSpot Lyme: A New Approach to Lyme Disease Testing
It looks like spring has finally arrived! Along with warmer weather, this means the return of ticks to certain regions and new cases of Lyme disease. The Centers for Disease control (CDC) reported approximately 32,500 new cases of Lyme disease … Continue reading
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Tagged ELISA, ELISPOT, iSpot, iSpot Lyme, Lyme, Lyme Disease, WB, western blot
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The NEI Connection 