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. 2019 Aug 16;68(32):703.
doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6832a4.

Updated CDC Recommendation for Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease

Paul Mead  1 , Jeannine Petersen  1 , Alison Hinckley  1
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Updated CDC Recommendation for Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease

Paul Mead et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. .

Abstract

Lyme disease is a tickborne zoonosis for which serologic testing is the principal means of laboratory diagnosis. In 1994, the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors, CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, and the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards convened the Second National Conference on Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease (1).

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