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What Does My ELISA Test Result Indicate?
Question: What does this result indicate?
Brief Answer:
Lyme disease is absent
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Welcome to Healthcare-Magic
Greetings of the day
Dear Ms
The result indicates absence of Lyme's disease. ELISA test is done to detect antibodies in blood, in the absence of active infection antibodies are not present which is depicted as negative ELISA test.
Do get back to me if you need any further assistance, will be glad to assist you.
Take Care
Best Regards
Dr Shobha Deepak
MBBS,MD
Lyme disease is absent
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Welcome to Healthcare-Magic
Greetings of the day
Dear Ms
The result indicates absence of Lyme's disease. ELISA test is done to detect antibodies in blood, in the absence of active infection antibodies are not present which is depicted as negative ELISA test.
Do get back to me if you need any further assistance, will be glad to assist you.
Take Care
Best Regards
Dr Shobha Deepak
MBBS,MD
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Is this the most reliabletest for lyme?
Brief Answer:
ELISA is quite sensitive test
Detailed Answer:
Dear Ms
It is very reliable test. Final way of ruling out is antigen testing. Negative ELISA test and negative clinical finding rules out Lyme disease.
take Care
Regards
Dr Shobha
ELISA is quite sensitive test
Detailed Answer:
Dear Ms
It is very reliable test. Final way of ruling out is antigen testing. Negative ELISA test and negative clinical finding rules out Lyme disease.
take Care
Regards
Dr Shobha
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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