Daily News | A new Lyme test for horses holds promise in humans — and dogs
The veterinarians were puzzled. They had a horse that was clearly sick, but they didn’t know why.The veterinarians suspected neurologic Lyme disease, but couldn’t confirm.
But these tests are indirect — measuring only the body’s response to exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi, the microbe that causes the disease. So the antibody tests do not indicate active disease. They can only tell you, in the best circumstances, that you’ve been exposed to the microbe. It doesn’t tell you when. Is it right now, or a year ago, or five years ago?
One advantage of this test is that it’s the same, whether you’re testing a horse, a dog, or a human. You’re looking for the DNA of the microbe, not antibodies. Antibodies are specific to the host. Dog antibodies and horse antibodies might be different from human antibodies. Let’s say you go to the beach and you want to find pink grains of sand where otherwise the beach seems white. Consider the pink grains to represent the pathogenic microbe. So it would be good if you could do something to increase the relative number of pink grains of sand in your sample. Maybe by getting rid of a lot of white sand, which leaves, in proportion, more pink grains of sand. Or imagine if you had a specific hook to grab only pink sand, even if it’s hard to see.
By treating the horse, veterinarians were able to return the animal to athletic high performance status.
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