Press Release about new Lyme culture test

PRESS RELEASE: ADVANCED LABORATORY SERVICES INC. ANNOUNCES NEW BORRELIA TEST PANELS

Advanced Laboratory Services, Inc. announces additions and refinements to their revolutionary Borrelia blood culture test, to be available by August 1, 2012. In addition to confirming cultures by using polyclonal immunostaining, they will now offer two additional options: confirmation by monoclonal immunostaining, and confirmation by nucleic acid testing, using a combination of DNA PCR plus DNA sequencing. Below is the currently available test menu plus an explanation with examples of what these tests offer:

BASIC BORRELIA CULTURE:

Blood samples are placed into a short-term culture upon receipt, and are assessed after approximately one week. If no Borrelia are observed, or if the results at this point are inconclusive, the sample is then transferred into a long- term culture, and read at eight weeks. All positive cultures are confirmed by growth characteristics, dark-field examination, and by Borrelia-specific polyclonal immunostaining. In some cases, the ordering practitioner may prefer to specify that immunostaining be performed using a monoclonal antibody-based immunostain. The explanation and application of these two complementary types of immunostains are outlined below. 

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http://www.advanced-lab.com/news/Press_Release_New_Borrelia_Test_Panels.pdf