Killing Lyme Cysts: Two Antibiotics Combined

In the dreamland of naive Lyme doctors, chronic Lyme that is dispersed all over the body is gone in 3-5 weeks of antibiotics. In other articles on this site, research is offered that shows Lyme is exceptional at hiding from your immune system and going into "fortress" protected cystic stages. The vulnerable banana becomes a walnut.

This abstract below talks about the ability of a special antibiotic combo to kill Lyme. Specifically, the combination of the Flagyl-like antibiotic tinidazole (TZ), together with a macrolide such as Zithromax or Biaxin, to kill cysts.

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The susceptibility of mobile and cystic forms of [lyme] Borrelia burgdorferi to tinidazole (TZ) was examined. The minimal bactericidal concentration (MBC) of TZ against the mobile spirochetes was >128 microg/ml at 37 degrees C in micro-oxic atmosphere when incubated for 14 days. TZ significantly reduced the conversion of mobile spirochetes to cystic forms during incubation. The MBC for older (10-months-old) cysts at 37 degrees C in a micro-oxic atmosphere was >0.5 microg/ml, but >0.125 microg/ml for young (1-day-old) cysts. Acridine orange staining, dark-field microscopy and transmission electron microscopy revealed that, when the concentration of TZ was > or = MBC, the contents of the cysts were partly degraded, core structures did not develop inside the young cysts, and the amount of RNA in these cysts decreased significantly. When cysts were exposed to TZ, both the spirochetal structures and core structures inside the cysts dissolved, and the production of blebs was significantly reduced. These observations may be valuable in the treatment of resistant infections caused by B. burgdorferi, and suggest that a combination of TZ and a macrolide antibiotic could eradicate both cystic and mobile forms of B. burgdorferi. [Lyme].

Brorson O, Brorson SH. An in vitro study of the susceptibility of mobile and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi to tinidazole. Int Microbiol. 2004;7:139-42.

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