Medical Diagnostic Labs Services: Tick-Borne Diseases - Topics include discussions of tests for Lyme disease, babesia, and ehrlichia, differentiating between tick-borne diseases, the role of PCR test, and preventing tick-borne diseases. MDL is located in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey.

Labodia SA: Review of Lyme Disease Laboratory Tests - Labodia SA, located in Yens, Switzerland, manufactures and distributes various diagnostic test kits for Lyme disease and other diseases. Explanations of some Lyme disease tests.

Lyme Disease Test Kits: Potential for Misdiagnosis - Article published in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Bulletin, Summer 1999.

BBI Clinical Laboratories - Independent specialty clinical reference laboratory offering detection, confirmation, identification of tick-borne diseases including Lyme disease, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, human monocytic ehrlichiosis, and babesia. Includes information about tests.

Study shows Lyme testing has long way to go - Summary of study, Interlaboratory Comparison of Test Results for Detection of Lyme Disease..., published in Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Results, Summer 1997.

Specialty Laboratories - Test Methodology Guide - Brief summaries of various tests including Indirect Fluorescent Antibody (IFA), Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), and Immunoblot/Western Blot (WB). Laboratory located in Santa Monica, California.

Recommendations for Test Performance and Interpretation...on Serologic - A two-test approach for active disease and for previous infection using a sensitive enzyme immunoassay (EIA) or immunofluorescent assay (IFA) followed by a Western immunoblot, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), August 11, 1995.

ELISA and Western Blot: Lies that can kill you? - Editorial about serological testing for Lyme disease by Thomas Grier. From "Spotlight on Lyme", newsletter of the Lyme Alliance.