Ticks used to hunt hidden lyme bacteria in humans
NCT ID NCT01143558
Summary
This study aimed to find out if live Lyme disease bacteria can still be present in people after they finish antibiotic treatment, which might explain why some people have lasting symptoms. Researchers used a method called xenodiagnosis, where clean, lab-raised ticks were placed on the skin of 45 participants (including people recently treated for Lyme and healthy volunteers) to feed and then be tested for the bacteria. The main goal was to see if this tick-based method could successfully detect an ongoing infection that standard blood tests might miss.
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Locations
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
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Tufts University
Boston, Massachusetts, 01536, United States
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Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, 06510-8005, United States
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