Evaluation of the C6 enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay for the serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis in north-eastern Italy |
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Authors: | Cinco Marina Murgia Rossella |
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Affiliation: | Laboratorio Spirochete, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Trieste, Italy. cinco@dsbmail.units.it |
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Abstract: | A novel antigen preparation--the synthetic C6 peptide, a conserved portion of the variable VlsE antigens of Borrelia burgdorferi--has been evaluated for serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis (LB) by an ELISA procedure. Serum specimens were from early and late LB patients, all resident in an endemic area in north-eastern Italy. The specificity of the test approached the 100% and sensitivity was in the order of 63% (early LB) and 100% (late LB); this performance is superior to the preceding generation of Lyme disease tests. |
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