Spirochetes Unwound

The pitfall of serological testing is that patients test negative during the early days of infection because time is needed for the immune ...

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

The first recorded syphilis epidemic flared up in war-torn Naples in 1494, only two years after Columbus discovered the New World.  From the...

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

The signs and symptoms associated with acute human leptospirosis are well known.  Less is known about how well patients manage after they be...