More Funds, New Tech Needed To Diagnose Lyme Disease, US Work Group Says
Executive Summary
A US federal working group focusing on tick-borne diseases is recommending more funds from Congress for Lyme disease diagnostic test development. As the number of cases increase, current diagnostics result in too many false-positives and false-negatives, and there is essentially no test to show an infected individual has been cured, the group says.
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