A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

A Northwestern University study reveals that piperacillin, a common antibiotic, effectively treats Lyme disease in mice at a ...

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

In the realm of Lyme disease research, one antibiotic emerged as being highly effective for treatment of acute infection, and ...

Ticks that spread the Lyme-causing bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi are most active when ... broadening the risk of contracting the disease. In their experiments, an antibiotic from the penicillin ...

Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon—a 2022 study found that 14% of patients who were ...

Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon - a 2022 study found that 14% of patients who were diagnosed and treated early with antibiotic therapy would still develop ...

With the arrival of spring and summer, the Midwest is bracing for an increase in tick activity – particularly deer ticks, ...

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and the charity, Lyme Disease UK, is urging the public to look out for these dangerous arachnids which may ...

"You have this chronic illness, you go to the doctor, the doctor says Lyme doesn’t exist here and you’re stuck, no one ...

could kill Borrelia burgdorferi – the most common type of Lyme disease-causing bacteria – in a lab dish. Next, the researchers injected 46 mice with B. burgdorferi. Three weeks later ...

Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon ... the body may be responding to remnants of the Borrelia burgdorferi (the bacteria that causes Lyme) cell wall ...