From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: How to Diagnose Lyme... really
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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In article <C5sy24.LF4@watson.ibm.com> yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo) writes:

>>Why do you think he would be called a quack?  The quacks don't do cultures.
>>They poo-poo doing more lab tests:  "this is Lyme, believe me, I've

> 
>Are you arguing that the Lyme lab test is accurate?

If you culture out the spirochete, it is virtually 100% certain
the patient has Lyme.  I suppose you could have contamination
in an exceptionally sloppy lab, but normally not.  There are no
false positives.


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