LymeRix

[Guest guest]

Well- based on this- there are alot of Lymerix vaccinees

participating in studies.

I think there were over 10000 people vaccinated in the East.

I wonder why none of them are on line?

What is their status?

Anyone know?

Barb

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Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 2005 Sep;12(9):1036-40.

Detection of immune complexes is not independent of detection of

antibodies in Lyme disease patients and does not confirm active

infection with Borrelia burgdorferi.

Marques AR, Hornung RL, Dally L, Philipp MT.

Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of

Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health,

Bethesda, MD 20892-1888, USA. amarques@...

The Borrelia burgdorferi-specific immune complex (IC) test, which

uses polyethylene glycol (PEG) precipitation to isolate ICs from

serum, has been used as a research test in the laboratory diagnosis

of early Lyme disease (LD) and has been proposed as a marker of

active infection. We examined whether B. burgdorferi-specific

antibodies were present within PEG-precipitated ICs (PEG-ICs) in

patients with LD, posttreatment Lyme disease syndrome, and controls,

including individuals who received the outer surface protein A (OspA)

vaccine.

Using a B. burgdorferi whole-cell enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

(ELISA), we obtained positive PEG-IC results not only in patients

with a history of LD, but also in individuals vaccinated with OspA

vaccine.

The frequency of positive PEG-IC ELISAs in OspA vaccinees was

significantly higher with ELISA-reactive than with ELISA-negative

unprocessed serum samples (P=0.001), demonstrating dependency between

the tests. Similar results were found using samples from rhesus

macaques infected with B. burgdorferi, uninfected macaques vaccinated

with OspA, and controls.

Therefore, testing for the presence of antibodies against B.

burgdorferi in PEG-IC preparations is not more likely to reflect

active infection than testing in unprocessed serum and should not be

used in individuals who received the OspA vaccine.

PMID: 16148168 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

[Guest guest]

First Welcome to the Group ... Second, you could still have gotten it by its

own, its not particular to whom it really wants to attack lol... But I sure

would check out the facts with your doctor just in case... But I have never

heard of the vaccine myself...

Love and peace always

Shaun and Barb