Lyme Disease

AI-guided rapid Lyme disease test shows promise for early detection
By LabPulse.com staff writers
A new test under development that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and a format similar to that of at-home COVID-19 tests has been shown to accurately identify Lyme disease within 20 minutes.
August 29, 2024
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GMU researchers receive $1.2M in funding for Lyme disease urine test
By LabPulse.com staff writers
Researchers at George Mason University (GMU) have received $1.2 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of the Army to develop a urine-based test for the detection and diagnosis of Lyme disease.
May 24, 2024
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T2 Biosystems awarded $100K for Lyme panel from HHS, Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation
By LabPulse.com staff writers
T2 Biosystems has been selected as a Phase 1 winner in a competition designed to advance the discovery of Lyme disease diagnostics.
November 7, 2022
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Adaptive Biotechnologies debuts T-cell Lyme disease test
By LabPulse.com staff writers
T-Detect Lyme, a blood test that aims to diagnose Lyme disease sooner, uses Adaptive's sequencing capabilities and Microsoft's cloud-scale AI (artificial intelligence) to characterize the T-cell repertoire and identify a clinical signal for disease.
June 14, 2022
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Qiagen, DiaSorin debut Lyme disease assay
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The test has a sensitivity of 74% and a specificity of 100% within 21 days from the first evidence of infection. It is available in markets accepting the CE Mark, and those that use the Liaison analyzer systems.
April 20, 2021
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Don't let COVID-19 blunt awareness of Lyme disease
By LabPulse.com staff writers
Below are the most common tick species found in the U.S.:
July 19, 2020
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IGeneX reports data for tick-borne fever test
By LabPulse.com staff writers
Tick-borne relapsing fever and Lyme disease (LD) are caused by two related Borrelia bacteria groups, each of which includes more than 20 species.
October 29, 2019
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NIH-funded Lyme test promises better results, at the point of care
By Emily Hayes
Results for an improved version of the mChip-Ld Lyme disease test, which is being developed with support from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), were reported in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology online October 9.
October 16, 2019
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FDA clears new indications for Lyme tests from Zeus
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The FDA noted that Lyme disease traditionally has been diagnosed using a two-tier process to detect the presence of antibodies in a patient's blood against Borrelia burgdorferi, the tick-borne bacteria that causes Lyme disease. In this approach, clinical diagnosis was confirmed using two different types of tests, enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and western blot.
July 29, 2019
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Bay Area biotech gets NIH grant for Lyme disease test
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The South San Francisco-based company says that its antibody detection by agglutination-PCR (ADAP) technology platform will power a test that is far more sensitive than standard testing today, enabling earlier detection of Lyme disease, as well as helping to distinguish it from other tick-borne illnesses. Enable is working with Tulane University and Columbia University on the Lyme disease test and with other partners to develop ADAP tests for HIV and type 1 diabetes.
July 11, 2019
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IGeneX survey flags gaps in tick-borne disease testing
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The survey of 198 patients/customers tested between 2018 and 2019 highlights the challenges of getting a professional to make a diagnosis, as well as the financial impact of a delayed diagnosis, according to the company. IGeneX markets tests for Lyme disease, relapsing fever, babesiosis, and other conditions caused by ticks.
July 10, 2019
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Qiagen and DiaSorin heed call for better Lyme disease test
By LabPulse.com staff writers
Development of the test for Lyme disease, which is also called borreliosis and is transmitted by blacklegged ticks, will build on an ongoing collaboration to combine Qiagen's QuantiFeron interferon gamma release technology and DiaSorin's Lyme disease testing arrays.
June 5, 2019
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