Worried about finals, Sarah wasn’t sleeping and had become a bit run down. She had noticed a cold sore the week before, but that always occurred around finals. One day, she woke up and her face felt a little numb. The next day, her eye was dry and her smile didn’t quite look right. By… Continue reading Bell’s Palsy and Lyme Disease
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Clinicians often rely on laboratory testing to find evidence of infections that may explain a patient’s symptoms and help guide treatment. Direct evidence may be a specific segment of DNA or a protein that confirms the presence of the target pathogen. Indirect evidence could be antibodies and other immune biomarkers that suggest recent or past… Continue reading What is an antibody titer?
Harnessing the Power of Sample Enrichment Slow-growing, immune-evasive pathogens present a particular challenge for scientists developing diagnostics for confirmation of infection. These elusive microbes often fly under the radar, evading direct and indirect detection using standard testing methods. From a clinical perspective, documentation of low abundance infection presents a significant false negative problem and may… Continue reading Leaders in Direct Detection of Hard-to-Detect Pathogens
The likelihood that a pathogen will overwhelm the immune system and cause a person to become ill has to do with the dose of the exposure. Scientists have explored the dose of exposure in a variety of infectious diseases such as Lyme borreliosis and – most recently – COVID-19. Scientists are learning more about how… Continue reading The Infectious Dose of Pathogens and Transmission Risk
Nonspecific findings and symptoms can be caused by a variety of health conditions, so the puzzle of finding their origins can leave people sick but undiagnosed for years or even a lifetime. The existence of nonspecific findings and symptoms highlights the importance of research that advances the ability to diagnose illness quickly and accurately. A… Continue reading What are nonspecific findings and symptoms? Why are they important in an emerging disease?
