leonard sigal speaks about limitations of LD blood testing and CDC criteria

From: eugeneshapiroisapig (mockingbirdstl_at_aol.com)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: 20 Feb 2005 17:46:08 -0800

"...The CDC criteria are not for making a diagnosis of Lyme
disease...What you're referring to, I think, is the CDC criteria, which
are the epidimiologic criteria for the clinical definition of a case of
lyme disease. Those are the criteria that must be met in order to
report a case. Those criteria should not be used to make the clinical
diagnosis of Lyme disease. They were never intended for such use...it's
a tracking technique. It's not a diagnostic criteria...I do not make a
diagnosis of Lyme disease based on the numbers."

Leonard Sigal, August 1996

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