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Re:Doxycycline, Azithromycin and Vitamin C (DAV): eradicatin... by cushpush on Sunday November 26, 2023 @04:40AM (#38420393)
This is amazing and I do not mean to nit-pick but does this statement logically cohere?

  >Also, the concentrations of antibiotics used here represent sub-antimicrobial levels of Doxycycline and Azithromycin, thereby avoiding the potential problems associated with antibiotic resistance.
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Re:Doxycycline, Azithromycin and Vitamin C (DAV): eradicatin... by MrLeap on Sunday November 26, 2023 @09:10AM (#38421706)
If you don't have enough antibiotics to actually kill microbes, you aren't selecting for higher resistance.
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Re:Doxycycline, Azithromycin and Vitamin C (DAV): eradicatin... by bratwurst3000 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @09:50AM (#38421969)
Antiobiotics don’t kill bacteria. They stop the growth and the body does the rest. Or am I wrong ?
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Re:Doxycycline, Azithromycin and Vitamin C (DAV): eradicatin... by naveen99 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @10:31AM (#38422328)
Some do, some don’t. Penicillins interfere with bacterial cell walls which ends with the bacteria exploding / dying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin
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Re:Doxycycline, Azithromycin and Vitamin C (DAV): eradicatin... by hereme888 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @11:49AM (#38422992)
Most do directly kill bacteria.
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Re:Doxycycline, Azithromycin and Vitamin C (DAV): eradicatin... by fastaguy88 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:17PM (#38425589)
Yes. The concentrations of the antibiotics are too low to select for resistance, because they do not significantly affect bacterial growth. (Without selection, no resistance).
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