Ticks are more than just a nuisance—some of them carry serious diseases like Lyme and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

A Western blot uses electricity to split certain proteins in your blood into patterns. This is then compared to the pattern of people known to have Lyme disease. At least five band matches means ...

The western blot uses electricity to split antibodies into individual proteins, which lab technicians scrutinize for the telltale pattern of Lyme antibodies. The western blot test is actually less ...

Symptoms she’d attributed to the long tail of her Lyme — diagnosed with a positive western blot after many tick bites in woods near her Northern Virginia home — worsened.

Neurologic Lyme disease affects the central or peripheral nervous system. Learn more here. ... a healthcare professional then performs a Western blot test to confirm the diagnosis.

Lyme Disease can actually affect the brain and other parts of the nervous system, causing ... Lyme tests like the Western Blot and enzyme immunoassay tests, ...

People with chronic Lyme disease (or PTLDS) are understudied and have limited treatment options, ... has much higher sensitivity and resolution than the Western blot and ELISA tests.

Lyme Disease. Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the U.S. ... If the Western blot is negative, it suggests that the ELISA test was a false positive.

Why some people recover from Lyme disease, while others experience months, years or even decades of chronic symptoms has long puzzled doctors. New research offers some clues to an immune system ...

Western blot sample preparation: Protein extraction and quantification. Sample preparation is a crucial first step in performing an accurate western blot. 4 After extracting total protein from the ...

If there has been one silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been the rise of rapid self-tests, which provide results at home in minutes. Researchers are hard at work at developing similar ...