Discusses research being done on Lyme disease treatment using antibiotics. Reference to a study by G.P. Wormser et al, which appeared on the May 6, 2003 issue of 'Annals of Internal Medicine'; Responses of patients to ceftriaxone; Comments on the study....
B O S T O N, June 12, 2001 -- For the first time, doctors have shown that aquick dose of antibiotics can ward off Lyme disease after a tickbite, but they caution against overusing the treatment. Some physicians already give antibiotics to people who arebitten by deer ticks, the bugs ...
Researchers from Boston, New Haven, Conn., and Valhalla, N.Y., followed 129 patients who had previously been treated for well-documented cases of Lyme disease. Sixty four were given antibiotics directly into their veins for a month, followed by two months of oral antibiotics. The others recei...
Clinical Trials Update November22/29,2022 Anita Slomski JAMA.2022;328(20):2004. doi:10.1001/jama.2022.21305 FullText A shorter course of oral doxycycline is effective in treating erythema migrans, the most frequent manifestation of early Lyme borreliosis, and can reduce harmful antibiotic use, ...
The study, conducted by Canadian medical experts, finds that a prolonged course of antibiotics to treat Lyme disease is no more beneficial to a patient than a placebo, and can even cause adverse health conditions, such as allergic reactions, C. di...
Lyme disease is treated with removal of infected tick, and various antibiotics. Lyme disease is found in places of high humidity and regions that have very low or high temperatures, where infected ticks thrive. Woody, grassy and bushy regions are areas that are commonly exposed to ticks, ...
If diagnosed and treated early with antibiotics,Lyme diseaseisalmost alwaysreadily cured.Even in later stages, Lyme disease can alsobe treatedeffectively, but because the rate of disease progression and individual response to treatment varies from one patient to the next, some patients may have sympt...
(HealthDay)—The bacteria that causes Lyme disease protects itself from antibiotics by forming a slime-like layer called a biofilm, a new study shows.
This paper outlines the challenges overcome in the healthcare response to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, the development of sensitive laboratory tests for the AIDS virus, and the promotion of long-term combination antimicrobial regimens to effectively treat HIV disease....
Researchers at Tulane University have found that a combination of antibiotics is more effective in treating Lyme disease than the commonly prescribed course of one single antibiotic. This finding, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, could pave the wa