Improved Test For Lyme Disease Could Provide Accurate Results Within 20 Minutes, Researchers Report

HealthDay (8/28, Thompson) says, “An improved test for Lyme disease could provide accurate results within 20 minutes, researchers report.” Resembling “an AI-guided form of the at-home COVID-19 test,” investigators observed that the test “is 95% accurate at detecting Lyme disease and 100% accurate at ruling out samples that don’t contain Lyme antibodies.” The findings were published in Nature Communications.