Lyme Disease and False Negative or False Positive (Unreliable) Blood Test Results (Links Only)
Lyme Disease
and
False Negative or False Positive (Unreliable)
Blood Test Results
(Links Only)
Lyme disease is a serious bacterial infection caused by a tick bite and
affects humans and animals.
This page contains links only. For the text version, which includes pertinent extracts from the existing links and from now defunct links (e.g., media items), see
Lyme disease and false negative or false positive blood test results (Text Version)
Table of Contents
Introduction to unreliability of Lyme disease tests
MEDLINE - Lyme disease and false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
Doctors on Lyme disease and false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
Doctors on Lyme disease and false positive blood tests
Laboratories on Lyme disease and false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
Other information on Lyme disease and false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
Media articles about Lyme disease and false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
For more information on Lyme disease
Lyme Disease and False Negative or False Positive (Unreliable) Blood Test Results
Introduction to unreliability of Lyme disease tests
Lyme Disease Test Kits: Potential for Misdiagnosis, FDA Medical Bulletin, Summer 1999
Interlaboratory comparison of test results for detection of Lyme disease..., J Clin Microbiol, Mar 97
Performance of 45 labs participating in proficiency testing program for LD serology,JAMA,Aug 92
MEDLINE - testing unreliable AND Lyme disease - 2 on 27 Jun 01 [1998, 1992]
Letter to the editor, D.E. Papendick, M.D., Algoma, WI, Fall 1997
Study shows Lyme testing has long way to go, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, 1997
CDC: Evaluating Diagnostic Test Kits for Lyme Disease [1990]
Medical Diagnostic Labs Services: Tick-Borne Diseases
III. Lyme Disease: Diagnosis - SUNY, Stony Brook
MEDLINE - Lyme disease and false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
This section contains links to citations and abstracts for medical and scientific articles from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) MEDLINE database.
MEDLINE - False Negative Reactions AND Lyme disease - 27 on 28 Jun 01
MEDLINE - seronegativ* AND Lyme disease - 102 on 28 Jun 01
MEDLINE - false AND negative AND positive AND Lyme disease - 51 on 28 Jun 01
MEDLINE - False Positive Reactions AND Lyme disease - 105 on 28 Jun 01
Doctors on Lyme disease and false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
Lyme Disease: The Sensible Pursuit of Answers, Kenneth B. Liegner, JCM, Aug. 1993
Neuropsychiatric Manifestation of Lyme Borreliosis, Fallon, M.D. et al., Psyc Qtrly, 63/1, 1992
The Neuropsychiatric Assessment of Lyme Disease, Robert Bransfield, M.D.
Seronegative Lyme Disease, Robert Bransfield, M.D.
Lyme Disease by Dr Joseph Burrascano - Conn's Current Therapy - 1997 (7 pages)
Advanced Topics in Lyme Disease, Joseph J. Burrascano Jr., M.D., May 2000
Doctors on Lyme Disease and false positive blood tests
Recognition and Management of Lyme Disease, by Verdon and Sigal, AFP, August 1997
Lyme Disease, The Health Gazette, Tallahassee, Florida, Karl Hempel, M.D.
Laboratories on Lyme disease false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
Rheumatology Diagnostics Laboratory - Lyme [disease] Serology
Labodia Lyme G kit insert
Labodia Lyme M kit insert
Virus Alert, The Bulletin of The Irish National Virus Reference Laboratory, Issue 03/94
Other information on Lyme disease false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
LDF: Nine reasons for false negative Lyme disease test results
NIH NIAID: Diagnosis of Lyme Disease, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
NIH: Conference on the Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease, Aug 98
FDA Public Health Advisory: Assays for Antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi
Knowing the Enemy - New Image of Lyme Disease, PNNL, ER News - April/May 1997
Joint Pain and Swelling: Could It Be Lyme Arthritis? David H. Wang, MD; Jesse L. Goodman, MD
LD Guidelines for MN Clinicians: Epidemiology, Microbiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention
Univ of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: Infectious Disease: Zoonoses Not Covered Elsewhere
NIH Guide: Neurological Aspects of Lyme Disease, Volume 22, Number 5, February 5, 1993
Seronegative LD. Dissociation of specific T- and B-lymphocyte responses to Bb, NEJM 1988
The Consequences of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Lyme Disease..., Annals 1 Mar 98
CDC: Improved Serodiagnostic Testing for LD: ...a Multicenter Serologic Evaluation, Apr-Jun 96
CDC: Recom. for Test Perf. and Interpretation from Second Natl Conf. on Serologic Diag. of LD
Media articles on Lyme disease and false negative/seronegative/false positive blood tests
Log Cabin Democrat Features: Medical community split on Lyme realities 6/22/97
Overdiagnosis of Lyme disease - Newspaper Article Synopsis, 3/19/98
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Art Doherty.
Last updated on 28 June 2001 by
Art Doherty
Lompoc, California
doherty@utech.net