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The CDC keeps giving research money to the same Lyme deniers over and over, but generally will not fund any study that looks to question the official positions on Lyme. The big medical journals also refuse to publish anything that questions or contradicts the official positions. (Some of the same people who are on the IDSA Lyme committee are also on these editorial boards).
The CD57 is controversial because it was proposed as a useful tool in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease by Dr. Rafael Stricker, an ILADS board member and treating LLMD. The IDSA & CDC consistently ignore or denounce anything produced by doctors and researchers who believe differently than they do.
Dr. Stricker previously did some studies with Cd3 and Cd4 and found them not consistent enough to use for diagnosing Lyme. He is an immunologist who studied HIV in the past. (He also treats and studies Morgellon's, which he believes is caused by a spirochete, probably a variation of Borrelia. Most Morgellon's patients show Lyme antibodies and improve with Lyme treatment.)
He is vocal and visible, criticizing and contradicting much of the "orthodoxy" that the CDC and IDSA still cling to. He even spoke at the IDSA hearings on treatment guidelines in 2008 when the IDSA ignored all contradicting evidence and rubber stamped their guidelines. I am quite confident that Stricker's vast work on Lyme+ is high on the IDSA's "ignore or denounce" list.
The IDSA has been insisting for nearly 15 years that the CDC Western Blot interpretation is excellent for disgnosis. In order to acknowledge the CD57 as a meaningful test for Lyme, they would have to admit the WB is sometimes a false negative. I suspect they take the view that all those people with a negative WB don't actually have Lyme, and so the Cd57 is therefore not useful. As a result, few mainstream doctors have ever heard of it.
My doc also primarily uses it for determining the end of treatment. I have heard of others who use it to help in a diagnosis. I am very curious as to what mine was. I will bet it was quite low.
The CD57 is controversial because it was proposed as a useful tool in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease by Dr. Rafael Stricker, an ILADS board member and treating LLMD. The IDSA & CDC consistently ignore or denounce anything produced by doctors and researchers who believe differently than they do.
Dr. Stricker previously did some studies with Cd3 and Cd4 and found them not consistent enough to use for diagnosing Lyme. He is an immunologist who studied HIV in the past. (He also treats and studies Morgellon's, which he believes is caused by a spirochete, probably a variation of Borrelia. Most Morgellon's patients show Lyme antibodies and improve with Lyme treatment.)
He is vocal and visible, criticizing and contradicting much of the "orthodoxy" that the CDC and IDSA still cling to. He even spoke at the IDSA hearings on treatment guidelines in 2008 when the IDSA ignored all contradicting evidence and rubber stamped their guidelines. I am quite confident that Stricker's vast work on Lyme+ is high on the IDSA's "ignore or denounce" list.
The IDSA has been insisting for nearly 15 years that the CDC Western Blot interpretation is excellent for disgnosis. In order to acknowledge the CD57 as a meaningful test for Lyme, they would have to admit the WB is sometimes a false negative. I suspect they take the view that all those people with a negative WB don't actually have Lyme, and so the Cd57 is therefore not useful. As a result, few mainstream doctors have ever heard of it.
My doc also primarily uses it for determining the end of treatment. I have heard of others who use it to help in a diagnosis. I am very curious as to what mine was. I will bet it was quite low.
In the Lyme world, Burascano, a, highly regarded LLMD, says in his latest DVD speech that he uses CD-57 as a tool for measuring if a patient can stop treatment or not.
never heard of it before this lyme stuff...
perhaps it was checked at some point.. i do not know what the doc sill think.
i tested hiv+ in 92 so all those tests through the years...IDK
i was wondering what a "healthy " persons test should be considering the ok range is 60 - 360?
i hear that the dc57 is controversial
perhaps it was checked at some point.. i do not know what the doc sill think.
i tested hiv+ in 92 so all those tests through the years...IDK
i was wondering what a "healthy " persons test should be considering the ok range is 60 - 360?
i hear that the dc57 is controversial
I have heard that a truly healthy person will be at least in the 200-300 range.
Have you had it checked before? (Since it is suppressed by both Lyme and HIV.)
Is your ID doc familiar with it?
Have you had it checked before? (Since it is suppressed by both Lyme and HIV.)
Is your ID doc familiar with it?
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