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Podcast: Tick Boot Camp
Episode: ECO Laboratory - an interview with Karen Weeks and Anna Roberts
Description: This week Tick Boot Camp interviewed the dynamic mother daughter founders and operators of Eco Laboratory.
Karen Weeks is an internationally recognized Lyme disease pioneer who has been at the forefront of Lyme research since the early 1980s. While supervising the Virology Department at the Department of Public Health for Massachusetts, Ms. Weeks worked directly with Dr. Allen Steere (the physician researcher recognized for detailing the clinical symptoms and naming Lyme disease). At that time, Ms. Weeks developed the Antibody Capture Immunoassay, which remains the most sensitive test available for Lyme disease.
In 1990 she co-founded...