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- Lyme Disease Specialists and Care Centers - Northwestern Medicine
The Northwestern Medicine Division of Infectious Disease provides quality outpatient care for Lyme disease and other infectious diseases
- Contact: Office for Research - Northwestern University
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- Infectious Diseases - Northwestern University
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- Taking the bite out of Lyme disease - Northwestern Now
In two new studies led by bacteriologist Brandon L Jutras, Northwestern scientists have identified an antibiotic that cures Lyme disease at a fraction of the dosage of the current “gold standard” treatment and discovered what may cause a treated infection to mimic chronic illness in patients
- Lyme Disease - Northwestern Medicine
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that’s transmitted by black-legged deer ticks When bitten by an infected tick, a person can develop a series of symptoms over the weeks and months that follow If treated in the early stage with antibiotics, Lyme disease is easily cured
- Piperacillin kills Lyme bacteria in mice, leaves gut microbiome alone
Scientists from Northwestern University have identified that piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment
- Brandon Jutras, PhD - Bay Area Lyme Foundation
Dr Brandon Jutras is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology-Immunology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine Dr Jutras has focused his entire research career on studying the biology and pathogenesis of Borrelia burgdorferi
- The Antibiotic That Takes the Bite Out of Lyme - News Center
Scientists from Northwestern University have identified that piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at a dose 100 times smaller than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold-standard treatment
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