Testing your tick provides vital information about any diseases you may have contracted from the bite. This can help your doctor narrow down a diagnosis and begin timely treatment. Testing your tick eliminates the uncertainty over the best sample to send and reduces false negative results by using the entire tick.
- FREE tick testing is available from the Bay Area Lyme Foundation
http://www.bayarealyme.org/lyme-disease-prevention/tick-testing/
Laboratories that test tick-borne pathogens:
Analytical Services, Inc.
Attn: Tick Testing
130 Allen Brook Lane
Williston, VT 05495
(800) 723-4432
www.analyticalservices.com
Clongen Laboratories Tick Testing Service 1
211 Perry Pkwy #6
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
(301) 916-0173
www.clongen.com
Connecticut Pathology Laboratories
1320 Main St., Ste 24
Willimantic, CT 06226
(860) 450-1823
Imugen
315 Norwood Park South
Norwood, MA 02062
(800) 246-8436
www.imugen.com
Old Dominion University
Tick Research (c/o Dr. Wayne Hynes)
Department of Biological Sciences
Norfolk, VA 23529
For questions, please email: whynes@odu.edu or hgaff@odu.edu
ODU asks for a donation of $50 to process your tick
https://sites.wp.odu.edu/tick-team/sending-us-your-ticks/
UMass Extension Diagnostic Lab Tick Assessment
Holdsworth Natural Resources Center
160 Holdsworth Way, University of Massachusetts
Tick-Borne Disease Diagnostics
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-4800
http://ag.umass.edu/services/tick-borne-disease-diagnostics
OR https://www.tickreport.com
IGenex
795 San Antonio Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94303
(800) 832-3200
www.igenex.com
Additional Tick Testing information:
http://www.tickencounter.org/tick_testing
Disclaimer
Any information provided is for the reader’s own evaluation and is not offered as and should not be considered medical advice. A licensed physician should always be consulted when considering medical decisions and nothing herein may be used in place of advice from your personal physician or other healthcare professional. Links to other sites are provided for ease of research only. Information on those sites is the product of the website author and represents the opinion of those who publish the sites and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or judgment of the National Capital Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Association.
