Maladie de Lyme : enfin un test de dépistage prometteur !
mais d'après le Dr RICHARD HOROWITZ
There is a need to accurately identify at early stages of illness not
only Lyme disease, but multiple associated co-infections. The Tick-Borne
Disease Serochip may help to improve diagnostic accuracy for certain
tick-borne diseases, but because it is based on antibody production, it
may not always pick up Lyme at an early stage, nor other borrelia
species from the sensu lato group, nor other Babesia species, Ehrlichia
species, or rickettsial species. It also is not testing for Bartonella,
which are frequently finding as a co-infection in our sickest patients,
or Tularemia, which we occasionally find co-infecting our patients. The
ability however to raise awareness among health care professionals
regarding the existence of co-infections, is an important first step.
