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Post by itchin4answers on Mar 7, 2012 0:31:10 GMT -5
I got my CD57 Results today. My count is 70 THE CD-57 TEST Our ability to measure CD-57 counts represents a breakthrough in LB diagnosis and treatment. Chronic LB infections are known to suppress the immune system and can decrease the quantity of the CD-57 subset of the natural killer cells. As in HIV infection, where abnormally low T-cell counts are routinely used as a marker of how active that infection is, in LB we can use the degree of decrease of the CD-57 count to indicate how active the Lyme infection is and whether, after treatment ends, a relapse is likely to occur. It can even be used as a simple, inexpensive screening test, because at this point we believe that only Borrelia will depress the CD-57. Thus, a sick patient with a high CD-57 is probably ill with something other than Lyme, such as a co-infection. When this test is run by LabCorp (the currently preferred lab, as published studies were based on their assays), we want our Lyme patients to measure above 60; a normal count is above 200. There generally is some degree of fluctuation of this count over time, and the number does not progressively increase as treatment proceeds. Instead, it remains low until the LB infection is controlled, and then it will jump. If the CD-57 count is not in the normal range when a course of antibiotics is ended, then a relapse will almost certainly occur. www.ilads.org/files/burrascano_0905.pdf
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Post by kazzhsv on Sept 10, 2012 23:16:15 GMT -5
Lyme is not the only thing that will lower the CD57 - Tuberculosis and Chlamydia also have been shown to.
For this reason and others, the CD57 is being phased out and will not longer be tested. This will occur over the next couple of weeks.
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Post by xiblanque on Sept 10, 2012 23:47:36 GMT -5
Hello Kazzhsv, Xiblanque here... nice to meet you. We do have a few Aussies here. Also... check your messages (look at the very top center of the page for your Message area, click on the yellow text "Message")... I've sent you a personal message with some pertinent info. Xiblanque
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