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Antigenicity of IRs of VlsE in humans. Fifteen samples were randomly selected from a CDC panel of 41 Lyme disease sera. Antibody levels were assessed by peptide-based ELISAs. The cutoff value (0.500) was based on the mean OD plus 3 SDs of human sera collected from hospitalized patients in an area where Lyme disease is not endemic.
