Poor Positive Predictive Value of Lyme Disease Serologic Testing in an Area of Low Disease Incidence

Background. Lyme disease is diagnosed by 2-tiered serologic testing in patients with a compatible clinical illness, but the significance of positive test results in low-prevalence regions has not been investigated. Methods. We reviewed the medical records of patients who tested positive for Lyme dis...

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I publikationen:Clin Infect Dis
Huvudupphovsmän: Lantos, Paul M., Branda, John A., Boggan, Joel C., Chudgar, Saumil M., Wilson, Elizabeth A., Ruffin, Felicia, Fowler, Vance, Auwaerter, Paul G., Nigrovic, Lise E.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Oxford University Press 2015
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4599394/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26195017
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/civ584
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