In the EU-largest clinical trial DualDur achieved significantly higher diagnostic results than the currently used methods

The clinical trial to observe the efficiency of DualDur In Vitro Diagnostic System, which was developed to diagnose Lyme borreliosis, was taking place between 2019 and 2020. The data from the research was used to examine the performance, sensitivity and specificity of the system and the positive and negative predictive values. Out of the observed…

What is wrong with microscopy in Borreliosis?

Nothing, as you will see from the below evidence. Microscopy in diagnostics Microscopy played a great role in identifying unknown pathogens and it is still the first line of diagnostics in some diseases where the novel diagnostic tools failed first time or did not prove to be efficient in the long term. Examples are syphilis…

Serology in Lyme borreliosis

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.…

The greater epidemic than COVID-19

“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…

DualDur reagent and method

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…

Dark-field microscopy in Lyme borreliosis

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…

Atrio-ventricular conduction disturbance due to Lyme carditis

Below is a case-study, one of the many where direct diagnostic methods, especially microscopy, played a vital role in providing proper treatment for a Lyme-patient: An active professional sportsman was admitted to our hospital with atrio-ventricular conduction disturbances. Purpose of admission was to insert a definitive pacemaker. During recording of the symptoms and patient history,…

Over two years to a diagnosis?

A nationwide survey by LymeDisease.org confirms that current methods used to diagnose and treat Lyme disease are often faulty and inadequate.  The overwhelming response rate – over 6,000 respondents within six weeks – demonstrates the urgency of this issue within the Lyme community. Sixty-two per cent of those who responded to the survey by LymeDisease.org…