sentences:  Benach subsequently supplied Burgdorfer with more field-collected ticks from Shelter Island, along with sera from clinically diagnosed patients with Lyme disease.The collaborative effort enabled Burgdorfer to confirm his suspicions about the new spirochete.Benach and pathology colleague Marc Golightly developed the critical laboratory test to detect the presence of antibodies to "Borrelia burgdorferi", an ELISA test that became the original “gold standard” for Lyme diagnosis.