Table 2.
The seven white-tailed deer serum samples positive by standardized western immunoblot assay, and the respective Borrelia burgdorferi antigens they reacted against upon testing with the diagnostic standardized Marblot protocol for human Lyme Disease.
| No of WTD samples | Molecular weights in kDa of B. burgdorferi antigens |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93 | 70 | 66 | 60 | 58 | 45 | 41 | 39 | 34 | 31 | 30 | 28 | 23 | 18 | |
| Negative | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
| Weak | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Positive | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
This table summarizes the number of WTD serum samples, which were negative, weak or positive for each of the B. burgdorferi antigens on the standardized marblot protocol for human Lyme Disease.