TABLE 3.
Clinical diagnostic | No. of samples | No.positive/no. negative (%) by ELISA with:
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rNon-OspA | Vidasb | ||
Early Lyme disease, culture positive | 65 | 56/9 (86) | 56/9 (86) |
Disseminated Lyme disease (arthritis, PCR positive) | 10 | 10/0 (100) | 8/2 (80) |
Syphilis | 6 | 1/5 (17) | 3/3 (50) |
Autoimmune disease | 20 | 6/14 (30) | 1/19 (5) |
Healthy | 19 | 2/17 (10) | 0/19 (0) |
Note: values of ≥3 standard deviations were counted as positive.
CDC 1st tier; P > 0.05 for all panels tested by McNemar’s exact test for correlated proportions.