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A rapid, at-home test that can diagnose acute Lyme disease? That is the goal for researcher Brandon Jutras and his team at Virginia Tech’s Fralin Life Sciences…
Over the past 20 years, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of cases and the geographic distribution of Lyme disease.
''This discovery furthers our understanding of how Borrelia burgdorferi causes inflammation and disease,'' said Mari Davis, who is the lead author on the paper, a former master's graduate of the Jutras lab in the Department of Biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. ''It is a testament to how unique that this bacterium is -- and how we need to keep working to understand more about what is going on behind the scenes in order to develop future diagnostics and treatments.''