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=== False positives === Several herpesviruses including [[varicella zoster virus]]<ref name="Feder1991">{{citation | last1 = Feder | first1 = HM Jr | authorlink = | last2 = Gerber | first2 = MA | authorlink2 = | last3 = Luger | first3 = SW | authorlink3 = | last4 = Ryan | first4 = RW | authorlink4 = | title = False-positive serologic tests for Lyme disease after varicella infection|journal=N Engl J Med|volume=325|issue=26 | page = 1886-7 | date = Dec 1991|pmid=1961232|url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1961232}}</ref><ref name="Woelfle1998">{{citation | last1 = Woelfle | first1 = J | authorlink = | last2 = Wilske | first2 = B | authorlink2 = | last3 = Haverkamp | first3 = F | authorlink3 = | last4 = Bialek | first4 = R | authorlink4 = | title = False-positive serological tests for Lyme disease in facial palsy and varicella zoster meningo-encephalitis|journal=Eur J Pediatr|volume=157|issue=1 | page = 953-4 | date = Nov 1998|pmid=9835449|url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9835449}}</ref>, [[cytomegalovirus]], [[Epstein-Barr virus]],<ref name="Goossens1999">{{citation | last1 = Goossens | first1 = HA | authorlink = | last2 = Nohlmans | first2 = MK | authorlink2 = | last3 = van den Bogaard | first3 = AE | authorlink3 = | title = Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus infections cause false-positive results in IgM two-test protocol for early Lyme borreliosis|journal=Infection|volume=27|issue=3 | page = 231 | date =May 1999|pmid=10378140|url=http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02561539}}</ref> and [[Herpes simplex virus#HSV-2|HSV-2]]<ref name="Strasfeld2005">{{citation | last1 = Strasfeld | first1 = L | authorlink = | last2 = Romanzi | first2 = L | authorlink2 = | last3 = Seder | first3 = RH | authorlink3 = | last4 = Berardi | first4 = VP | authorlink4 = | title = False-Positive Serological Test Results for Lyme Disease in a Patient with Acute Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2|journal=Clin Infect Dis|volume=41|issue=12 | page = 1826-1827 | date = 2005|pmid=16288417|doi=10.1086/498319|url=http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/12/1826.full}}</ref> may cause false positives on Lyme Disease tests.
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