Quotes About Serology

For Lorenz, virgins were not a part of his world. He was skeptical of many things I said. Later, when the serology reports proved that what I had said was not a lie, that I had been a virgin, and that I was telling the truth, he could not respect me enough. I think he felt responsible, somehow. It was, after all, in his world where this hideous thing had happened to me. A world of violent crime.

Aucott's meticulous blood work also confirms—once and for all—the long-standing, but oft-disputed, contention that early antibiotic treatment suppresses the immune response, making serology like ELISA or Western Blot useless for many in the group. "Our studies show that approximately a third of those treated early for an erythema migrans never develop a diagnostic antibody response," Aucott states.