Evaluating Frequency, Diagnostic Quality, and Cost of Lyme Borreliosis Testing in Germany: A Retrospective Model Analysis
Figure 3
Recovery of LB-specific IgM- (a) and IgG- (b) immunoblot banding patterns (reported borrelial antigen bands: p83/100, p58, p43, p41, p39, OspA, OspC, p17/18, VlsE) as obtained from the participating laboratories for one sample (no. 32/2008) used for LB proficiency testing in 2008. Absolute frequency of participants reporting positive results for each antigen are depicted by bars. Relative frequency of positive reports for the different manufacturers are shown by colored boxes within the bars. (ER, MK, VM, VT, others: anonymized abbreviations of different commercial blot manufacturers). For clinical information of samples, see Table 1.
