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5 January 2023
Texas A&M University Research Aims To Improve Lyme Disease Diagnostics
Lyme disease, the fastest growing vector-borne illness in the U.S., according to the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, is challenging to diagnose and can only be treated in the early stages of infection. Once the infection spreads to the nervous and muscular systems, it is both harder to detect and less susceptible to antibiotics.
Research by two Texas A&M University scientists, however, is focused on improving Lyme disease treatment outcomes by developing a test that’s both more accurate and more effi