An accurate diagnosis needs special solutions DualDur medium, developed for laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease, prepares the blood sample for the dark-field microscopic examination of the pathogenic bacterium. The decades-long experience of Dr. Béla Pál Bózsik, who developed the medium, suggests that a Borrelia-infected blood sample taken on DualDur medium and condensed with the DualDur…
A limping dancer, a student forced to the bench. According to Dr. Erik Kolbenheyer, an internist, gastroenterologist, family doctor, occupational health specialist, doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, there are some particularly interesting cases of Lyme borreliosis, where the disease causes bizarre symptoms in the nervous system. The doctor, who, being personally affected by the…
Can we be happy if an indirect test does not show the presence of antibodies? If a patient or physician suspects that Lyme borreliosis is causing the symptoms, tests should be performed which, if positive, support a causal relationship. These blood tests are described in our paper by dr. Klára Esztó, who has been dealing…
Some of the fundamental questions of diagnosing Lyme Borreliosis are: why not look for the bacterium and why a serological test is not enough? The question rightly arises as to why we are not looking for the bacterium, said Dr. Klára Esztó, a Lyme specialist who has been dealing with patients showing the symptoms of…
In many cases, the infection does not come with a characteristic or diagnostic symptom. Treating Lyme borreliosis is a complex task for specialists. If a positive result confirms that a patient is infected with Lyme disease, there is still an open question whether this causes (all of) their symptoms or not. This is a valid…
Serology in Lyme borreliosis is certainly not magic, but it helps in certain situations. According to Béla Pál Bózsik M.D., the researcher who invented the DualDur methodology, experts have forgotten what it means in everyday practice that serology is an indirect diagnostic method. Seronegativity means that the method cannot demonstrate the presence of antibodies, for some reason or another.…
“As people in the US struggle to get tested for COVID-19, I am thinking of the difficulty of getting tested for Lyme disease. Although Lyme first appeared in the medical literature more than four decades ago in 1975, there is still no reliable way to test people for the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. The…
The DualDur reagent and method was developed based on 30 years of experience in examining spirochetes, and diagnosing Lyme disease. The DualDur reagent will make it possible for the analyst in the laboratory analyzing blood samples to see only the spirochetes, 1,000x concentrated, alive and moving. This fact was confirmed by immunofluorescence and PCR. Countless investigations were carried out…
Béla Pál Bózsik M.D. worked using classical dark-field microscopy, and realized there was a need for methods to distinguish between the spirochete and artefacts in the preparations. He has developed a reagent (DualDur), the blood sample is to be taken into this liquid. This reagent makes the other objects rigid and motionless and there are…