Re: barb/PCR-immune complexes

[Guest guest]

....makes one wonder why a new test with good sensitivity and

specificity would fall by the wayside, and what's emerged is a2

tierd test with criteria so narrow, it misses 80% of the infected

people.

Barb

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> > > QUESTION: Can PCR find the DNA from bound antibody/antigen?

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> barb, I suspect not. i suspect this not because i am intimately

familiar with pcr

> methodology, but rather because SUNY-Stoneybrook was developing a

specific test to

> find Bb-antibody/antigen immune complexes back in the early 90's

despite already

> having the PCR stuff available.

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> i was a test subject offering over both spinal fluid and serum. i

did get results back

> and a brief blurb of the study results a while later. they had a

nice test with decent

> sensitivity and good specificity. a few treating docs who were

colleagues of the

> SUNY-SB players were using it for a while and then it just faded

away. i was looking

> into it last year and the folks in the know had no more info than

that...

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