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=== Commentaire de Psiram.com sur les LTT Tests ===

=== Commentaire de Psiram.com sur les LTT Tests ===

Sur un forum, il en est discuté: <ref>http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/how-decide-on-next-tests-to-take.28333/ : ''"The Borelllia ELISPOT LTT is sent to Germany (Infectolabs) via [[Nick Harris|IGenex]]. There is a $250 S&H charge that has to be paid up front via CC. Sample has to be taken on a Monday, shipped over night to [[Nick Harris|IGenex]], then they ship over night to Germany. Germany lab performs four tests, Lyme, Eurlichia, and two variety of Chlamydia. These are enzyme tests and suppose to be more sensitive than ELISA. All results go to doctor only. They offer multiple test panels for these four to help with costs. They overnight the test kit once S&H paid for.<br>The Lyme antigen test on the [[Nick Harris|IGenex]] test panel form is a urine test that is usually done during a antibiotic challenge.<br>The HME and HGA tests in the co-infections panel is for Ehrlichiosis (I did not know this). [...] This test has a good reputation among LLMDs. [...] If you just get the Borrelia LTT the test cost is 184 euros....but then there is the shipping [...] I took the LTT and the Western Blot. Completely negative on all bands of the WB, extremely positive on LTT. [...]"'' <br>Echange de mails de février 2014</ref>.<br>[[Nick Harris|IGenex]] est un laboratoire d’analyse qui propose ses propres tests, dont les LTT tests, son président est [[Nick Harris]], un des membres fondateurs de l’[[ILADS]]. Même ses tests Western Blot pour la [[maladie de Lyme]] ne sont pas approuvés par la FDA. Déjà en 2005 ... <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/health/policy/unproved-lyme-disease-tests-prompt-warnings.html ''"... Now the New York State Department of Health has opened an investigation of the California laboratory, [[Nick Harris|IGenex]] Inc., that issued Mr. Courcier's positive result, after receiving eight complaints from doctors and patients who said its Lyme tests also gave them positive results not confirmed by other labs' results.<br>The warning did not mention [[Nick Harris|IGenex]] or any other lab by name. But Dr. Paul Mead, a C.D.C. scientist who helped write it, said in a telephone interview, "Quite simply, we're concerned that patients are being misdiagnosed through the use of inaccurate laboratory tests." He added that some of the tests and techniques used by [[Nick Harris|IGenex]] sting, saying that the federal guidelines miss many patients who have Lyme disease. ..."''</ref> leurs Lyme-tests donnaient des résultats positifs non confirmés par les résultats d'autres laboratoires.

Sur un forum, il en est discuté: <ref>http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/how-decide-on-next-tests-to-take.28333/ : ''"The Borelllia ELISPOT LTT is sent to Germany (Infectolabs) via [[Nick Harris|IGenex]]. There is a $250 S&H charge that has to be paid up front via CC. Sample has to be taken on a Monday, shipped over night to [[Nick Harris|IGenex]], then they ship over night to Germany. Germany lab performs four tests, Lyme, Eurlichia, and two variety of Chlamydia. These are enzyme tests and suppose to be more sensitive than ELISA. All results go to doctor only. They offer multiple test panels for these four to help with costs. They overnight the test kit once S&H paid for.<br>The Lyme antigen test on the [[Nick Harris|IGenex]] test panel form is a urine test that is usually done during a antibiotic challenge.<br>The HME and HGA tests in the co-infections panel is for Ehrlichiosis (I did not know this). [...] This test has a good reputation among LLMDs. [...] If you just get the Borrelia LTT the test cost is 184 euros....but then there is the shipping [...] I took the LTT and the Western Blot. Completely negative on all bands of the WB, extremely positive on LTT. [...]"'' <br>Echange de mails de février 2014</ref>.<br>[[Nick Harris|IGenex]] est un laboratoire d’analyse qui propose ses propres tests, dont les LTT tests, ce laboratoire d'analyse a été fondé et longtemps dirigé par [[Nick Harris]], un des membres fondateurs de l’[[ILADS]]. Actuellement, sa présidente et directrice de laboratoire est Jyotsna Shah. Leurs tests Western Blot pour la [[maladie de Lyme]] ne sont pas approuvés par la FDA. Déjà en 2005 ... <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/health/policy/unproved-lyme-disease-tests-prompt-warnings.html ''"... Now the New York State Department of Health has opened an investigation of the California laboratory, [[Nick Harris|IGenex]] Inc., that issued Mr. Courcier's positive result, after receiving eight complaints from doctors and patients who said its Lyme tests also gave them positive results not confirmed by other labs' results.<br>The warning did not mention [[Nick Harris|IGenex]] or any other lab by name. But Dr. Paul Mead, a C.D.C. scientist who helped write it, said in a telephone interview, "Quite simply, we're concerned that patients are being misdiagnosed through the use of inaccurate laboratory tests." He added that some of the tests and techniques used by [[Nick Harris|IGenex]] sting, saying that the federal guidelines miss many patients who have Lyme disease. ..."''</ref> leurs Lyme-tests donnaient des résultats positifs non confirmés par les résultats d'autres laboratoires.

== Interview de Nicolaus par Huib Kraaijeveld ==

== Interview de Nicolaus par Huib Kraaijeveld ==