InfectoLabs – Tickborne Diseases Test

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a commonly used laboratory technique for the diagnosis of a wide variety of genetic testing and infectious diseases. The PCR can detect the DNA of microbial pathogens such as bacteria and viruses in clinical specimens with high sensitivity. PCR is a technique where specific fragments of DNA can be amplified which validates the presence of DNA or RNA of pathogens in a patient’s specimen.

The new Infectolab Americas tick-borne panel tests for the presence of the 9 pathogen groups listed below and the technique we employ is very specific and highly sensitive and more information is published by Blake et al in Journal of Clinical Microbiology Volume 57 in November 2019.