A Lyme-kór diagnosztizálása napjainkban is komoly kihívást jelent. A fertőzés korai szakaszában a szervezet immunválasza még nem minden esetben mutatható ki, ezért a hagyományos ellenanyag-alapú vizsgálatok (például ELISA vagy Western blot) bizonyos esetekben negatív eredményt adhatnak annak ellenére, hogy a fertőzés már jelen van. Ez az egyik oka annak, hogy világszerte folyamatosan keresik azokat a…
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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…
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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.…
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Out of 960 Lyme borreliosis patients with chronic symptoms, 707 had not been treated for the symptoms before – according to data from a Hungarian Lyme clinic. The patients were diagnosed with other disorders, e.g. autoimmune, rheumatologic, neurologic or psychiatric diseases. Treatment schedule of the 960 patients The diagnosis and treatment of Lyme borreliosis is a subject with…
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“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…
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Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne illness, which is typically transmitted by ticks – Ixodes species to be precise. The incidence of Lyme borreliosis is continuously increasing, which is caused by a number of factors. One of them is the transmission of Lyme disease from mother to foetus. Proven transplacental infection The first confirmed…
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Accurate visualization of Borrelia spirochetes remains one of the most challenging aspects of Lyme disease research. While molecular and serological techniques are widely used, direct observation of living Borrelia organisms has historically been limited by the technical capabilities of conventional microscopy. A 2024 study published in Acta Microscopica presents the first application of an improved-resolution…
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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…
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