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Current Lyme disease tests look for antibodies produced by the immune system in response to Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. “The problem is that these antibodies don’t have the right characteristics to be clinically useful,” said Peter Gwynne, a research assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.

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