What test do infectious disease drs. do?
It all depends on which lab interprets the Western Blot and what (arbitrary) threshold they set for testing positive. In addition to the three labs mentioned previously you can get accurate results from Specialty Laboratories in California. You won’t get usable results from Quest. Lyme literate doctors diagnose by symptomatology as well as by lab test. Unfortunately they risk professional censure by doing so. If you find, or are recommended to, an LLMD, please don’t mention his or her name or initials in a public forum, such as Yahoo, but only in private one to one e-mails. Followers, or members, of IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America) limit themselves to their society’s extremely limited (and thoroughly discredited) treatment guidelines, which, unfortunately are also subscribed to by the CDC, most insurers and the military.
