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SUBMITTER: Lee SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3975398 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Sin Hang SH Vigliotti Jessica S JS Vigliotti Veronica S VS Jones William W Shearer David M DM
International journal of molecular sciences 20140311 3
The diagnoses of Lyme disease based on clinical manifestations, serological findings and detection of infectious agents often contradict each other. We tested 52 blind-coded serum samples, including 20 pre-treatment and 12 post-treatment sera from clinically suspect Lyme disease patients, for the presence of residual Lyme disease infectious agents, using nested PCR amplification of a signature segment of the borrelial 16S ribosomal RNA gene for detection and direct DNA sequencing of the PCR ampl ...[more]