Lyme Disease

Routine Lyme medicines bounce off Lyme biofilms unless you use very strong treatments, which I outlined in 2014. Our Combatting Biofilms is still number one on the topic. But doctors have full waiting rooms, insurance that takes their time, and low reimbursement—hence, fast appointments. They have no time to read many books in a year. Dominico and fellow researchers offer these […]

The problem with using phages to treat Borrelia is their variable genome, exchange of genetic material and the fact that no two Borrelia are alike in living hosts (as opposed to lab cultures). One would have to engineer an array of phages and give them all each time. Even with this, some bugs may escape. Some feel there needs to

Hundreds of articles show that doxycycline and amoxicillin/Augmentin and IV/IM Ceftriaxone do not kill persisters or biofilm forms. Ceftriaxone [Rochephin] Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-Like Microcolony B. burgdorferi Persisters And yet these Lyme are killed well by Daptomycin + Doxycycline + Cefuroxime without Pulse Dosing Feng and coauthors suggest one possibility for persistent illness in some treated Lyme patients… “… is due to Borrelia burgdorferi persisters that current antibiotics

In previous studies, we showed that fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) contribute to inflammatory mediator output from primary rhesus microglia in response to live Borrelia burgdorferi. We also demonstrated that non-viable B. burgdorferi can be as pathogenic as live bacteria, if not more so, in both CNS and PNS tissues. In this study we assessed the effect of live and non-viable B. burgdorferi in inducing FGFR expression from rhesus frontal

There is no controversy over the Lyme bacteria’s ability to invade the brain. Here, there was a look at brain Lyme or Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB). They report that office and radiology tests are highly variable and not clearly specific for Lyme, delaying diagnosis and treatment. So they explored MRI patterns in those with neurological Lyme. Was there any pattern or

SAMPLES 1. 90 seconds of education in medical school and residency with minutes to mere hours in class learning this super specialization. 2. Board prep training has minutes to pass infection boards. CME classes merely on Lyme may give you a magical view of competence. “Abracadabra” and POOF you have spent over 20 years and 2000 hours learning. 3. Use of one