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This I took to be the semi-official response to my query. It isn't satisfactory but I am old and tired and so shan't pursue it. But the ThermoScientific abs seem to confirm Bb as the spirochetes cultured by Advanced. [snip] Example of a Once B31 specific Mouse Monoclonal- now not unique for B31 bor...

An internal validation study for the specificity of the polyclonal antibody showed that it is able to recognize reference cultures of Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii , but not Escherichia coli or Treponema denticola (data not shown). snip monoclonal antibody (MA-1-7006 , ...

I had positive Western Blots done at IGenex and it did not show the 2 strains separated out. I was not aware they offered this dual Western Blot clinically. It makes sense they would prepare both separately for their study but I have never heard of it being offered outside research and sent to a pa...

Study Figure 2 for a visual demonstrating why IGeneX uses B31 and 297.

http://dc303.4shared.com/doc/XG86xab5/preview.html

Probably based on this work: Infect Immun. 2008 August; 76(8): 3374–3389. Published online 2008 May 12. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00048-08 PMCID: PMC2493225 A Genome-Wide Proteome Array Reveals a Limited Set of Immunogens in Natural Infections of Humans and White-Footed Mice with Borrelia burgdorferi † Alan ...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23929025 Folia Microbiol (Praha). 2013 Aug 9. [Epub ahead of print] DNA persistence after treatment of Lyme borreliosis. Pícha D, Moravcová L, Vaňousová D, Hercogová J, Blechová Z. Source 1st Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Hospital Na Bulovce, 2nd Medical School,...

Their paper was published on May 23 and was noted on this site at the time.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3675506/

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When reading the above post change all "elf"s to "elp"s.

Rita - Don't know what you want to understand. But then I am old. :D Skimming the article you posted. Never seen an Erp protein with a molecular weight anywhere near 60 kDa. It has been clear to me for a couple of years that "18" was either RevA, 17 kDa, or ErpA/I/N, 19 kDa, or both! And it is quite...