{"id":129126,"date":"2021-10-17T19:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T02:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/drug-treatment-for-lyme-disease-could-lead-to-its-eradication"},"modified":"2021-10-17T19:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T02:22:33","slug":"drug-treatment-for-lyme-disease-could-lead-to-its-eradication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/drug-treatment-for-lyme-disease-could-lead-to-its-eradication","title":{"rendered":"Drug treatment for Lyme disease could lead to its eradication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-treatment-for-lyme-disease-could-lead-to-its-eradication2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Lewis\u2019s studies suggest it is extremely difficult for <i>B. <i>burgdorferi<\/i><\/i> to evolve resistance to hygromycin. The chemical resembles essential nutrients that spirochaetes cannot make themselves and take up using a specific transporter, so mutations that block the take-up of hygromycin would also deprive spirochaetes of these nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis says his team isn\u2019t the first to discover the value of hygromycin. It was studied as a potential treatment for a pig disease in the 1980s but abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2250045-lyme-disease-vaccine-found-to-be-safe-and-effective-in-clinical-trial\/\">Vaccines against Lyme disease are also being developed<\/a>, but eradicating the disease would be an even better option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By contrast, Lewis\u2019s studies suggest it is extremely difficult for B. burgdorferi to evolve resistance to hygromycin. The chemical resembles essential nutrients that spirochaetes cannot make themselves and take up using a specific transporter, so mutations that block the take-up of hygromycin would also deprive spirochaetes of these nutrients. Lewis says his team isn\u2019t the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129126","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=129126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}