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

Ngolela Esther Babady; Lynne M. Sloan; Emily A. Vetter; Robin Patel; Matthew J. Binnicker

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.08.016

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

Ngolela Esther Babady, Lynne M. Sloan, Emily A. Vetter, Robin Patel, Matthew J. Binnicker

Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

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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%).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	464-466
Number of pages	3
Journal	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Volume	62
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.08.016
State	Published - Dec 2008

Keywords

Blood
Cerebrospinal fluid
Lyme
PCR
Synovial fluid

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Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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

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