Resurgence of Persisting Non-Cultivable Borrelia burgdorferi following Antibiotic treatment

Borrelia still keeps giving even after long courses of antibiotic treatment
-'The agent of Lyme borreliosis, Borrelia burgdorferi, evades host immunity and establishes persistent infections in its varied mammalian hosts. This persistent biology may pose challenges to effective antibiotic treatment. Experimental studies in dogs, mice, and non-human primates have found persistence of B. burgdorferi DNA following treatment with a variety of antibiotics, but persisting spirochet...Afficher la suite

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