{"id":104523,"date":"2020-03-31T05:42:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/lyme-disease-bacteria-eradicated"},"modified":"2020-04-01T22:29:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T05:29:28","slug":"lyme-disease-bacteria-eradicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/lyme-disease-bacteria-eradicated","title":{"rendered":"Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lyme-disease-bacteria-eradicated.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2002, my husband and I became seriously ill after a vacation to Martha\u2019s Vineyard. It took ten doctors and a year to discover the root cause: We\u2019d been bitten by unseen ticks harboring the parasites that cause Lyme disease and babesiosis, a malaria-like disease.<\/p>\n<p>Our road to recovery was grueling, requiring five years of intermittent antimicrobial treatments. Later, I discover that my situation wasn\u2019t all that uncommon. About one in five Lyme patients continue to suffer from ongoing symptoms after being treated with the recommended course of antibiotics. After that experience, it was abundantly clear that we need better treatments.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I was excited to hear about a <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/all-news\/2020\/03\/potential-treatment-for-lingering-lyme-disease.html\">study<\/a> from Stanford Medicine researchers and their collaborators that provides evidence that the drug azlocillin eliminates the bacteria that cause Lyme disease at the onset of infection in lab mice and cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, my husband and I became seriously ill after a vacation to Martha\u2019s Vineyard. It took ten doctors and a year to discover the root cause: We\u2019d been bitten by unseen ticks harboring the parasites that cause Lyme disease and babesiosis, a malaria-like disease. Our road to recovery was grueling, requiring five years of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104612,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104523\/revisions\/104612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}