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by voidlogic 2548 days ago
>Unfortunately there’s no way to know that one currently has Lyme disease unless the symptoms are close in time to a tick bite.

I thought you could test for bacterial nuclear material in the blood?

Edit found it: Its a PCR Assay: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26469112