Spirochetes Unwound

A topical antibiotic cream applied to tick bites did not perform any better than placebo in preventing Lyme disease, according to results of...

We've seen that live Borrelia burgdorferi persists (in unculturable form) when infected mice are treated with antibiotics.  What we do...

As a follow up to my previous post , I would like to say something about several mouse studies from Stephen Barthold's group.  These pap...

A Lyme disease study published a few weeks ago in the New England Journal of Medicine has received a lot of coverage in the press .  Accord...

A group at the Pasteur Institute succeeded in generating a bioluminescent strain of Leptospira interrogans .  Their study was published las...

According to the CDC, 10-20% of Lyme disease patients who have completed antibiotic therapy continue to suffer from symptoms such as joint,...

Bactericidal antibiotics are effective at killing proliferating bacteria as long as they don't carry mutated or acquired genes that enco...

Feeding Ixodes ticks harboring Borrelia burgdorferi deposit the Lyme disease spirochete in the skin of the victim.  The spirochetes remain...