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Roy, I also thoght this was very provoking: Unfortunately, many patients are told they do not have borreliosis because they do not meet CDC’s surveillance criteria. Surveillance criteria exclude some of the classic hallmark antibodies, such as the 31 kDa band (outer surface protein A or ospA) and the 34 kDa band (outer surface protein B or osp . In fact, the 31 kDa band is so tightly associated with Lyme borreliosis that a vaccine was made from that outer surface protein. In other words, I believe that criteria that exclude the ospA (31 kDa) band should not be used to tell a patient they do not have Lyme borreliosis. Common sense should tell anyone that prevalent antibodies like the 31 dKa and 34 dKa should be included in the criteria, not excluded What the above means to us is that the medical world knew that the Band 31 dKa is related to Lyme disease so tightly that they made a vaccine from it but the CDC does NOT include Band 31dKa in termining a positive or negative western blot test??? WHY?? Can anyone answer that? Basically - the authot of the link thinks the test for Lyme is worthless without this band represented???? I agree. Just something to think about as we so desperately need accurate testing for Lyme! Cindy |
