Lyme Disease: Differentiating Between Detection and Diagnosis
Lyme Disease: Differentiating Between Detection and Diagnosis by Blanche Grube, DMD, and Leslie Douglas, PhD Scientific and Clinical Laboratory Testing in General Sensitivity and specificity are common terms for assessing in quantitative terms the accuracy of a given testing method. In other words, they measure whether and how well that method is able to distinguish […]
How Finding a Lyme Spirochete in a Root-Canal Tooth Led to the Development of a New Test Panel
How Finding a Lyme Spirochete in a Root-Canal Tooth Led to the Development of a New Test Panel by Blanche D. Grube, DMD, and Leslie J. Douglas, PhD Introduction Lyme disease may have begun in a small New England village, but it is now a national, indeed global, phenomenon. In fact, Lyme has become the […]