How to Detect Lyme Disease Infection Prevalence

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In the blood, it depends on what kind of beryllia you're talking about. But if you do see one, what it looks like is just a little squiggle and they kind of vibrate. They pass through the blood really briefly. Actually detecting them in blood is not the best way to pick up Lyme disease infection prevalence. For that, we actually go for tissue. So we'll try to get some ear tissue or if you have a whole animal, you can go for some other organ. That's where the pathogen that causes Lyme disease will migrate to eventually and sort of hang out.

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