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New Insights Into How Antibiotics Damage Human Cells Suggest Novel Strategies for Making Long-Term Antibiotic Use Safer

July 3, 2013 — A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has discovered why long-term treatment with many common antibiotics can cause harmful side effects — and they have uncovered two easy strategies that could help prevent these dangerous responses. They reported the results in the July…

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New study to discover preventive use of antibiotics for Lyme disease

At the start of the “Tick Week”, the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Wageningen University are commencing a large-scale study to discover whether preventive use of antibiotics can stop Lyme disease developing after a tick bite. Of the more than 3400 ticks that were sent to RIVM via Tekenradar.nl (Tick…

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Spirochete antigens persist near cartilage after murine Lyme borreliosis therapy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22728928 J Clin Invest. 2012 Jul 2;122(7):2652-60. doi: 10.1172/JCI58813. Epub 2012 Jun 25. Bockenstedt LK, Gonzalez DG, Haberman AM, Belperron AA. Source Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. Abstract An enigmatic feature of Lyme disease is the slow resolution of musculoskeletal symptoms that can continue after treatment, with…