Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial Genomes (2017)

Re:Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial G... by eigenloss on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:16AM (#20496393)

As someone who also suffered through very long-term antibiotic therapy:

Not to invalidate your story, but if your tests for Lyme were negative, it wasn't Lyme (borreliosis). B. burgdorferi is the only thing the medical community will always refer to as Lyme.

Azithromycin, doxycycline, and many antibiotics are almost harmless to coinfections of Lyme that are nonbacterial in nature, e.g. babesiosis, cytauxzoonosis and Powassan virus, to say nothing of the coinfections we don't even know about.

Two weeks without food is pretty extreme, and could have been fatal, but I'm happy it worked for you.

Feel free to email.

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Re:Ancient History of Lyme Disease Revealed with Bacterial G... by pmjordan on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:38AM (#20496490)

but if your tests for Lyme were negative, it wasn't Lyme (borreliosis).

Depends on the test. The ELISA test is cheap but extremely unreliable. ELISPOT/LTT seems to be the most reliable antibody test out there, at least for European strains. If the latter also came back negative, the evidence would indeed suggest this wasn't a Lyme infection but something else.

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