I just also wanted to point out that when I asked that company why they did not incorporate that, they told me that...because the United States Centers for Disease Control, but they also said in writing to me that if we want broader testing, they suggest we contact IGeneX , a lab in northern California.
Now, the word across Canada is this is an unaccredited for-profit lab. That is wrong. They are a fully accredited, certified, proficiency-tested laboratory, run by Ph.D. microbiologists. They use multiple strains in their Western blot, unlike Canada. That is why they're having much more success. They also are the only lab we're aware of in North America that is using strain 297, which is a human-derived strain out of the cerebral spinal fluid of a woman with Lyme disease. All other strains used in tests in North America are tick-derived. We think, from a microbiological perspective, that has considerable significance.
I just thought I would put that in.