Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests

Re:Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests by PragmaticPulp on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:16PM (#22765205)

I'll review the citations in this study once again, but the evidence for lingering spirochetes in humans is always thin. Much of it relies on indirect testing that is difficult to replicate or prone to laboratory errors.

I'd love to be completely wrong and for this to be a game-changing solution, but after years of following this research I'm suspicious of the idea that persistent yet mysteriously undetectable (in humans) spirochetes are responsible for PTLSD symptoms.

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Re:Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests by wolco on Thursday April 02, 2020 @09:21PM (#22765557)

The idea of lingering unwanted resistant bacteria not being killed by antibiotics have been shown true with other spore type bacteria. I don't have the background in this specific bacteria, why do you believe it would be so different?

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Re:Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests by loeg on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:23AM (#22766729)

It seems like their opinion is informed on the basis of the existing scientific evidence, which is eminently reasonable, IMO.

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Re:Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests by power on Friday April 03, 2020 @08:39AM (#22768565)

I'm interested in your opinion of the citations too. They purport to show persistence beyond standard treatment in mice, dogs, macaques and humans, the latter via xenodiagnosis and PCR. PCR is pretty direct.

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