ROCHESTER, Minn – Until recently, it was believed that only one kind of bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferi) caused Lyme Disease in North America. However, an unintentional discovery in a Mayo Clinic lab proved that wasn’t the case.
The Director of the Mayo Clinic Clinical Parasitology Lab, Bobbi Pritt, MD, was doing some routine tests looking for the organism B. burgdorferi when she noted some atypical results. After further testing, Dr. Pritt came to the realization of what was found.
“This was kind of big deal we knew this was going to be really important if this is actually an organism causing Lyme Disease in humans, which it did end up being. So that was our first patient, and then very quickly afterward we detected multiple other patients for a total of 6 patients infected with this new organism,” explains Dr. Pritt.=read more =http://kimt.com/2016/02/12/new-species-that-causes-lyme-disease-discovered-at-mayo-clinic/
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