Ying
Zhang, Ph.D., a Global Lyme Alliance (GLA)-funded investigator, and his
team at Johns Hopkins just published a study that establishes for the
first time that varying levels of
persistence & the severity of disease pathology caused by infection
with B. burgdorferi is linked to different morphological forms of the
spirochete. The findings may not only provide a new understanding of
chronic Lyme disease, but also will inform and accelerate development
and testing of novel persister drug combination regimens that can more
effectively cure persistent Lyme disease in the future.