Opinion: Methodological Shortcomings in the Study on a Prophage-based PCR Test for Lyme Borreliosis

Front Microbiol. 2021 Dec 13:12:802131. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.802131. eCollection 2021.

Freek R van de Schoor¹, M E Baarsma², Mariska M G Leeflang³, Volker Fingerle^{4

5}, Gabriele Margos^{4

5}, Joppe W Hovius^{2

5}, Alje P van Dam^{2

5}

¹ Radboudumc, Department of Internal Medicine, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases and Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
² Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
³ Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
⁵ ESCMID Study Group for Lyme Borreliosis, Basel, Switzerland.

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Keywords: Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme borreliosis; PCR; diagnosis; prophage.