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‘You don’t have Lyme’, or, ‘those rogue doctors are going to harm you with those horrible antibiotics’, these are statements made by doctors frequently to patients who either have the positive test for Lyme disease or have all the clinical symptoms of the disease. The medical community is under-educated, overly misinformed intentionally by the medical…
Healthcare Infection, 08/21/2013 Clinical Article Kassavin DS et al. – A review of the incidence of Clostridium. difficile infection (CDI) at the hospital was performed due to the morbidity of CDI in its fulminate form, reports of the increased incidence of CDI in the United States and the increased use of medications associated with its onset….
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…
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…
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…
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