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. 2008 Dec;62(4):464-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.08.016. Epub 2008 Oct 22.

Percent positive rate of Lyme real-time polymerase chain reaction in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, and tissue

Ngolela Esther Babady  1 , Lynne M Sloan, Emily A Vetter, Robin Patel, Matthew J Binnicker
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Percent positive rate of Lyme real-time polymerase chain reaction in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, and tissue

Ngolela Esther Babady et al. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 Dec.

Abstract

We performed a retrospective review of 23,777 specimens tested by our Lyme real-time polymerase chain reaction assay to determine the percent positive rates by specimen source. The percent positive rates were highest in synovial fluid (6.4%) and tissue (6.5%), and lowest in blood (0.1%) and cerebrospinal fluid (0.09%).

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