Current status of laboratory diagnosis for Lyme disease

The Spirochetal Etiology of Lyme Disease

1983 • 1,590 citations

Lyme Disease

1989 • 1,169 citations

Western Blotting in the Serodiagnosis of Lyme Disease

1993 • 693 citations

Antigens of Borrelia burgdorferi recognized during Lyme disease. Appearance of a new immunoglobulin M response and expansion of the immunoglobulin G response late in the illness.

1986 • 374 citations

Cross-Reactivity in Serological Tests for Lyme Disease and Other Spirochetal Infections

1987 • 317 citations

Comparison of Immunoblotting and Indirect Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Using Different Antigen Preparations for Diagnosing Early Lyme Disease

1988 • 294 citations

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay and Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay for Lyme Disease

1984 • 291 citations

Measurement of antibodies to the Borrelia burgdorferi flagellum improves serodiagnosis in Lyme disease

1988 • 264 citations

IS6110: Conservation of sequence in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and its utilization in DNA fingerprinting

1991 • 237 citations

A Specific and Sensitive Assay for the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction

1989 • 220 citations

Diagnosing early lyme disease

1985 • 185 citations

Cross-reactivity of nonspecific treponemal antibody in serologic tests for Lyme disease

1990 • 156 citations

Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi infection in Ixodes dammini ticks with the polymerase chain reaction

1990 • 146 citations

Molecular detection of persistent Borrelia burgdorferi in the urine of patients with active Lyme disease

1991 • 134 citations

Reactivity of human Lyme borreliosis sera with a 39-kilodalton antigen specific to Borrelia burgdorferi

1990 • 132 citations

In Vitro Inhibition of Borrelia burgdorferi Growth by Antibodies

1993 • 132 citations

Serodiagnosis of Early Lyme Disease: Analysis of IgM and IgG Antibody Responses by Using an Antibody-Capture Enzyme Immunoassay

1988 • 130 citations

Immune capture and detection of Borrelia burgdorferi antigens in urine, blood, or tissues from infected ticks, mice, dogs, and humans

1991 • 130 citations

Antibody Testing in Lyme Disease A Comparison of Results in Four Laboratories

1989 • 128 citations

Serodiagnosis of erythema migrans and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans by the Borrelia burgdorferi flagellum enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

1989 • 121 citations

An Interlaboratory Study of Antibody to Borrelia burgdorferi

1987 • 115 citations

Detection of antigens in urine of mice and humans infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, etiologic agent of Lyme disease

1989 • 102 citations

Characterization of the Borreliacidal Antibody Response to Borrelia burgdorferi in Humans: A Serodiagnostic Test

1993 • 91 citations

Amplification of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in skin biopsies from patients with Lyme disease

1991 • 85 citations

Use of recombinant OspC from Borrelia burgdorferi for serodiagnosis of early Lyme disease

1994 • 75 citations

The 83-kilodalton antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi which stimulates immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG responses in infected hosts is expressed by a chromosomal gene

1990 • 47 citations

Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA by the polymerase chain reaction

1990 • 35 citations

Quality of Lyme Disease Tests

1989 • 34 citations

Comparison of whole-cell antibodies and an antigenic flagellar epitope of Borrelia burgdorferi in serologic tests for diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis

1992 • 28 citations

Occurrence of Antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi in Patients with Nonspirochetal Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

1993 • 20 citations

Immunodominant proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiological agent of lyme borreliosis

1991 • 16 citations

Lyme disease--a pediatric perspective.

1992 • 13 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations