{"id":215079,"date":"2025-05-30T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/taking-the-bite-out-of-lyme-disease"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:03:51","slug":"taking-the-bite-out-of-lyme-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/taking-the-bite-out-of-lyme-disease","title":{"rendered":"Taking the bite out of Lyme disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taking-the-bite-out-of-lyme-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In two new studies led by bacteriologist Brandon L. Jutras, Northwestern scientists have identified an antibiotic that cures Lyme disease at a fraction of the dosage of the current \u201cgold standard\u201d treatment and discovered what may cause a treated infection to mimic chronic illness in patients. The studies were published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New studies offer insight into disease\u2019s treatment, lingering symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Northwestern scientists have identified an antibiotic that cures Lyme disease at a fraction of the dosage of the current \u201cgold standard\u201d treatment and discovered what may cause a treated infection to mimic chronic illness in patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two new studies led by bacteriologist Brandon L. Jutras, Northwestern scientists have identified an antibiotic that cures Lyme disease at a fraction of the dosage of the current \u201cgold standard\u201d treatment and discovered what may cause a treated infection to mimic chronic illness in patients. The studies were published in the journal Science Translational [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215079","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}