Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

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

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. At ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

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

Program enables access to R327G for diabetic foot infections (DFI), following recent positive Phase II results in acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections (ABSSSI), including diabetic foot ...

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2) To phenotypically characterize multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, proteus species, Citrobacter species, Salmonella and Shigella isolated ...

Telangana Medical Council uncovers ethical violations at Sarath Cardiac Center in Suryapet where technician posed as doctor ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. & ORANGE, Calif. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Two large multi-state studies funded by the National Institutes of Health and led by the University of California, Irvine, Harvard ...

This patient had presented 2 months previously when they were initially treated for suspected sepsis with broad-spectrum antibiotics by a different doctor (Dr Jones), but sepsis was ultimately ruled ...