Many Lyme Sources/Igenex

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Much of the comments I am seeing posted really need to be revised for 2006, and

perhaps some might look at the materials below for some updates. Also, we are

doing a textbook on pediatric Lyme which will be quite useful with 70-100

images, 30 cartoons and many other sources of info:

http://www.personalconsult.com/pubindex.html#lyme_disease

This section has 155 articles and about 500 pages....

Best to all,

JL Schaller, MD

jschaller@...

www.personalconsult.com

Lymes and Igenex

Rich,

I had a Lyme Dot Blot test, but I don't recall that it was provoked with

antibiotics. Has the procedure changed, or was my test done incorrectly?

Tim

Rich wrote,

" Just a small point concerning the LUAT test: Igenex now offers the

Lyme Dot Blot urine test, which is an upgraded version of the LUAT

test. The LUAT test was impugned by a study sponsored by the

National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases some time

back, and it is no longer offered.

Rich "

>

> There are various Igenex tests. Some are relatively use standard

blood

> drawing but in our opinion are more sensative than the standard

lab Eliza or

> Western Blot. These are antibody tests. Other tests are serum PCR

which track the

> Borellia spirochete, the bacteria which causes Lymes Disease.

> A provocative variation of this is the Igenex LUAT and a newer

Igenex method.

> The LUAT (Lymes Urine Antigen Test) requires the patient to take

an

> antibiotic prior to the test to provoke the borellia to die and

pass out in the urine.

> So the order of testing would be the straight serum tests and if

negative the

> provocative test.

>

> regards

> Enlander MD

> New York

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