The advantage of MDL is that they use spectroscopy to determine if a band is positive. A normal western is read by a technician who is trained to spot a 40% density in the band by visual inspection. Obviously this is highly variable and is the reason why if you send out the same blood sample to 3 different labs you can get 3 different results. MDLs is quantifiable and objective.
As someone else pointed out, however, there are false negatives like any other test. In addition IgG bands only indicate past exposure not current active infection, and there is debate about
the measurement treatment and cause of chronic lyme, which is what an IgG only result indicates.
But the simple fact that they use spectroscopy tells me they’re interested in the truth, not providing false positives to make money like some other labs I won’t mention. Dr K trusts MDL and if it’s good enough for Dr K it’s good enough for me!
Post Edited (dcd2103) : 6/25/2020 1:57:00 PM (GMT-6)