Health committee  That's a very good question. We have been doing research looking at the different strains of Borrelia burgdorferi, or genotypes, as they're called. There are minor differences in either the DNA of the organism or the amino acid. We know that there's a range of these different ge

Health committee  Absolutely. It's useful to try to understand the breadth of that. The way that the bacteria might respond in the tick is going to be different than in a mammal and perhaps in a bird. We have developed the research proposals to look at that in more detail. Understanding that who

Health committee  From a technical standpoint these assays are performed in a standardized fashion, as Steven mentioned. The ELISA is formatted to be used as a screening tool so it can be done as a high throughput test—with multiple tests performed at the same time—and it is really designed to be