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New podcast: Exploring Lyme antibiotics with Dr. Kim Lewis

ByCanLyme Team

Sarah explores the latest advances in Lyme disease treatment with Dr. Kim Lewis, a researcher, author, University Distinguished Professor and director of Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University in Boston. He specializes in molecular science and is currently researching persister cells that lead to tolerance to antibiotics, uncultured bacteria of the environment and the microbiome…

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A possible alternative to antibiotics

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[Canlyme note: Although Borrelia are not known to secrete toxins, this type of research may be beneficial for chemical constituents such as borrelia lipoproteins and lipopolysaccharides.] November 4th, 2014  Published online 02 November 2014 in Nature Biotechnology Engineered liposomes sequester bacterial exotoxins and protect from severe invasive infections in mice   Abstract Gram-positive bacterial pathogens that secrete cytotoxic…