To test or not to test? Laboratory support for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis - Author's reply

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Slagelse Hospital, Region Sjælland, Denmark. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² OLVG General Hospital and Public Health Laboratory, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ³ National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany.
• ⁴ UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
• ⁵ Centre for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Northwest Medical Centre, Academic Teaching Hospital, Medical Faculty, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main and INSTAND e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ⁷ National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, France.
• ⁸ Tick-radar GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁹ Karl Landsteiner Institute for Neuroimmunological and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹⁰ Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
• ¹¹ Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹² National Lyme Borreliosis Testing Laboratory, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, UK.
• ¹³ Division of Medicine, Skånevård Kryh, Region Skåne, Sweden.
• ¹⁴ Department of Neurology, HELIOS Klinikum München West, Munich, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.