IGeneX Labs

At the recent ILADS conference, according to Jyotsna Shah, PhD, CMLD,
MBA, Vice President of Research and Development Dept. and Laboratory
Director of Clinical Reference Laboratory,, IGeneX scored better than
95% in the stringent NY proficiency tests from 2001-2005. Out of 58
labs, only IGeneX had a perfect score on Western blot proficiency. In
recent tests for 327 patients, 238 were identified as positive by
IGeneX criteria. Only 112 would have been correctly diagnosed using the
CDC surveillance criteria.

In testimony given at the Informational Hearing on Lyme Disease: Issues
in Diagnosis and Reporting, Wednesday, February 25, 2004, to the
California Legislature Senate Committee on Health and Human Services
(Deborah V. Ortiz, Chair) Dr. Shah offered the following:

"For the year 2003, just to give you an idea, we had tested 698
patients suspected of Lyme disease. Three hundred and ninety-four were
positive by either Western blot or antigen test or PCR. If we had gone
by the CDC criteria only, we would have missed 70 percent of this 394
cases."

In other words, 56% of the Lyme disease tests performed by IGeneX
Laboratory in 2003 were positive.

This testimony is on the public record and is available online as part
of the recording of the complete hearing at www.calchannel.com. Go to
Search Archive, Browse by Month (February 2004), then to February 25th
(listed as 022504), Senate Info- Hearing, Health and Human Services -
Lyme Disease and hit "watch."

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