Normally they run an Elisha Test which will yield false negatives 50% of the time if Lyme is Chronic. The correct test is a Western Blot but you must be clinically diagnosed first, than put on heavy oral antibiotics 45 days prior to testing. This will allow the antibiotics to begin killing the Lyme if its present, get it out of the tissue where its hiding and make it borne in the blood stream. At that point, the Western Blot (2 different types of tests) has a good chance of catching it.

IGENICS studies the blood under a microscope for 8 days before confirming results.