The incessant scientific quarrels around Lyme disease, caused by tick bites, continued in court on Thursday. Nearly a hundred patients who claim to be victims of this infection due to bacteria transmitted by these parasites attack two laboratories marketing screening tests. A first. During a civil hearing held this Thursday in the court of Nanterre, these plaintiffs brought DiaSorin and Bio-Rad - two firms one of which is Italian, the other American - who put on the market these detection methods. Unreliable, according to them.
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Used since 2006, these tests would, they say, sometimes miss borrelia, the bacteria that causes headaches, fatigue but also neurological disorders, joint or muscle pain. "So much so that patients for whom the infection has not been detected find themselves plunged into medical wandering with serious consequences , " explains one of their two lawyers,
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