This looks promising. It could be years before it's available though, and who knows what it can or can not do to borrelia.
"Scientists have discovered a new class of antibiotic using a revolutionary procedure hailed as a game changer in the hunt for medicines to fight drug-resistant infections. The antibiotic, called teixobactin, kills a wide range of drug-resistant bacteria, including MRSA and bugs that cause TB and a host of other life-threatening infections.
It could become a powerful weapon in the battle against antimicrobial resistance, because it kills microbes by blocking their capacity to build their cell walls, making it extremely difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance.
“Teixobactin kills exceptionally well. It has the ability to rapidly clear infections,” said research leader Kim Lewis, director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University in Boston, US."
Well, we can always hope. And having Kim Lewis quoted makes my ears perk up.
The thing is that all the different forms of lyme do not have cell walls, and it is not clear how this will work with persisters.
It would be essential to have a clear statement of what the problem is, why the disease becomes chronic if not caught early, before we will know how to proceed against it. That means those morons who continue to deny chronic lyme have got to stop it, because this is a roadblock to any progress. I say morons, but really mean criminals/criminally incompetent.