Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests

Post by torgoguys » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 1:54 AM UTC

vimy wrote: post #33

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #2

Note that they're carefully dancing around the elephant in the room: As far as I know, no one has ever demonstrated that Lyme spirochetes survive a course of standard antibiotics (Emphasis mine): > Standard treatment of Lyme disease is oral antibiotics, typically doxycycline, in the early stages of the disease; but for reasons that are unclear, the antibiotics don't work for up to 20% of people with the tick-borne il…

Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease. >RESULTS: Motile spirochetes identified histopathologically as Borrelia were detected in culture specimens, and these spirochetes were genetically identified as Borreliaburgdorferi by three distinct polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based approaches. Spirochetes identified as Borrelia burgdorferi were cultured from the blood of seven subje…

Post by kortex » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 2:00 AM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #36

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #2

Note that they're carefully dancing around the elephant in the room: As far as I know, no one has ever demonstrated that Lyme spirochetes survive a course of standard antibiotics (Emphasis mine): > Standard treatment of Lyme disease is oral antibiotics, typically doxycycline, in the early stages of the disease; but for reasons that are unclear, the antibiotics don't work for up to 20% of people with the tick-borne il…

Lyme disease talk just makes me think of Nicholas Zakas and then I get bummed out. I know there's a guy, or maybe he represents a group of researchers, who thinks that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is caused by inflammation in the brain, either due to some undetectable infection, or just a misfiring that is a lingering effect of some other insult (sounds to me like a histamine response aka allergy). If your body thought y…

Post by mrfusion » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 2:27 AM UTC

megous wrote: post #34

mrfusion wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry I meant IgM not IgG.

The page says that: "Positive IgM results should be disregarded if the patient has been ill for more than 30 days." The reason may be this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X1...

Post by danielmg » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 2:33 AM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #44

danielhlockard wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ah yes, the flavor of the month drug. What makes you think it'd work on Lyme.

Did we have any reason to think it would work on corona? (I really don’t know)

Post by lone_post » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 2:45 AM UTC

vimy wrote: post #33

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #2

Note that they're carefully dancing around the elephant in the room: As far as I know, no one has ever demonstrated that Lyme spirochetes survive a course of standard antibiotics (Emphasis mine): > Standard treatment of Lyme disease is oral antibiotics, typically doxycycline, in the early stages of the disease; but for reasons that are unclear, the antibiotics don't work for up to 20% of people with the tick-borne il…

Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease. >RESULTS: Motile spirochetes identified histopathologically as Borrelia were detected in culture specimens, and these spirochetes were genetically identified as Borreliaburgdorferi by three distinct polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based approaches. Spirochetes identified as Borrelia burgdorferi were cultured from the blood of seven subje…