Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Lyme borreliosis is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in Europe. Up to 70,000 new cases are estimated each year in Austria alone. The bacterial infection can cause lasting health problems ...

Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterial species that can spread to people and animals from the bite of a deer tick—also called a black-legged tick—carrying ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually. Even in acute ...

A common antihistamine used to treat allergy symptoms called loratadine could help kill Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria associated with Lyme disease, according to a recent study. Loratadine, which ...

In the realm of Lyme disease research, one antibiotic emerged as being highly effective for treatment of acute infection, and early-stage data lent credence to one theory for the pathobiology of ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. It starts with the ticks. These bugs infect ...

You can get Lyme disease more than once after being bitten by an infected tick. Infected black-legged ticks must stay on your skin for 36-48 hours to transmit Lyme disease. Wearing long sleeves and ...

Not all cell walls are created equal. Take the peculiar makeup of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium’s cell wall. It might play a role in lingering symptoms of Lyme disease — the most common ...

At this point, too much manganese becomes toxic because the bacteria can no longer store it safely. This discovery holds potential for new Lyme disease therapies. Future drugs could starve the ...

The risk for being bitten by a tick infected with bacteria that cause Lyme disease is as high in Ohio as it is for those ...

Current ‘gold standard’ treatment does not work for up to 20% of population and kills beneficial bacteria Scientists screened nearly 500 FDA-approved compounds to assess effectiveness against Lyme ...