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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Medicine and laboratory testing are constantly changing. In an attempt to keep us all on the same page, the Laboratory Formulary Committee will be regularly sending out emails
with recent updates and guidances. A short description of the change are below and in the attached guidances.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Lyme Disease Diagnostic Testing:</b> Starting <b>May 4<sup>th</sup>, 2023</b>, the current diagnostic Lyme disease testing (<b>Lyme IgG, IgM antibody; LAB8754</b>) will be replaced with a more improved diagnostic testing algorithm –
<b>Lyme Diagnostic Test (LAB9804)</b>. This testing will be performed <b>24/7 at the Downtown campus</b>. For further information, please review the attached guidance for more information and the attached copy of the Interpretation Guide from the Association
of Public Health Laboratories.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">For prior guidances, please visit
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT"">Matthew Elkins, MD PhD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SUNY Upstate Medical University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director of Transfusion Medicine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director of Apheresis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Director of Stem Cell Laboratory<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Medical Director and Laboratory Director of SUNY Upstate Cord Blood Bank<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Director of SUNY Upstate Pathology Residency<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director SUNY Upstate Transfusion Medicine/Blood Banking Fellowship<o:p></o:p></p>
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