Best Lyme Disease Test: ELISA and then Western Blot but both together if there is a high suspicion given the high risk of false negative with ELISA

Best Lyme Disease Test Antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease do not appear in the blood until several weeks (usually 4-6 weeks) after the tick bite. The Lyme bacteria are not always present in the blood. A patient could have been infected with a strain of Bb that is not covered […]

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