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November

  • Drexel Lyme Disease Diagnostic Gets a Boost from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    November 21, 2022

    A team of researchers from Drexel University has proposed a way to detect Lyme disease by looking for a unique polymer-protein indicator that occurs before the immune reaction is triggered. The group’s method recently received a boost from a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Steve & Alexandra Cohen Foundation initiative to finally find an effective test for the disease.

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  • Drexel Lyme Disease Diagnostic Gets a Boost from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    November 21, 2022

    Nearly half a million people become infected with Lyme disease in the United States each year — a number expected to grow as climate change expands the range of the ticks that carry it. But despite its status as the country’s most common vector-borne disease, there is still no reliable way to detect the infection in its early stages — when treatment is most effective

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