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 ...

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

Both medicines have broad-spectrum activity against ... decrease the time doxycycline stays in the body. Using antibiotics when you don't need them can contribute to antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotic regimens prospectively studied with little to no activity against anaerobic ... that dual therapy with an extended-spectrum cephalosporin and doxycycline or azithromycin is an excellent ...