«Consumers should be as concerned as the
foremost infectious disease doctors are — which is very concerned,» David Wallinga, a senior health officer at the environmental nonprofit the National Resources Defense Council, who contributed to the report, told Time.
«This is an important proof - of - principle that the test can really be used in a field setting,»
says infectious disease doctor Charles Chiu of the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the study.
According to
infectious disease doctor and Lyme expert Benjamin Luft of Stony Brook University in New York, only certain strains of Northern Borrelia burgdorferi cause invasive Lyme disease, though it's accepted protocol to treat all Northern patients with antibiotics.
«It is important to protect these others — especially those in governorates not yet involved in this disaster,» says Abdul Rahim Al - Samie,
an infectious disease doctor in the city of Taiz, Yemen.
«We were surprised by the performance,» says Nira Pollock,
an infectious disease doctor at Boston Children's Hospital and an author of the new study.
Anne was also evaluated by numerous specialists: endocrinologists, orthopedists, hematologists,
infectious disease doctors, and, of course, psychologists and psychiatrists.
Julia Quinn: My husband, because he's
an infectious disease doctor.