Comparative evaluation of three products for the detection of Borrelia burgdorferi antibody in human serum.

摘要: Eighty human serum specimens tested concomitantly by immunoblot and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay developed jointly at the University of Connecticut School Medicine Agricultural Experiment Station were used to evaluate three commercially available diagnostic products for Lyme borreliosis. The sources kits Hillcrest Biologicals, Cypress, Calif.; Whittaker Bioproducts, Walkersville, Md.; Cambridge Bioscience, Worcester, Mass. When compared with Western blot analysis, sensitivities specificities, respectively, assays as follows: 93 75%; 73 100%; 89 Medicine, 96 92%. Images