How do they test dogs for Lyme, anone know??

I know my vet tests for LD. It cost between 150.00 and 200.00. I read a few articles on the internet and it appears that animals are kind of in the same boat as us. Even though vets believe in and treat LD in dogs, the treatment (abxs) may or may not work depending on severity/length of illness. I did find a few reference to this new test kits for animals:

Recently, an EIA test kit became commercially available for in-office diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis in dogs.a This assay uses a synthetic peptide, C6, as the antigen; this peptide is based on the sixth invariable region (IR6) in the VlsE Osp of B burgdorferi.117 The IR6 is greatly conserved among B burgdorferi strains and highly immunogenic in dogs.24 Although this assay shows promise,118,119 field studies that have validated its performance in large numbers of clinically well-characterized dogs have yet to be reported

Interesting, I didnt know the Lyme they have and the Lyme we have is different. My Golden Retriever had the shaking symptom also. He had Chronic Lyme because after abx, two years later he was still positive. Poor guy lived with it for 7 years but. he never complained.  (:  D