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Posted by lymeonade2015 (Member # 45611) on :

Do antibiotics penetrate into the lymph nodes? Also, separately, does anyone have any research on how far into tissues an antibiotic might penetrate? Thanks,

Posted by joalo (Member # 12752) on :

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Posted by Jordana (Member # 45305) on :

I did some digging for a chart or guide or something like that but there was nothing that was easy reading. Most of what I found were guides to treating specific infections.

I think the way you can find out tissue penetration is by googling your antibiotic plus "tissue penetration." For example, I found this:

http://www.ashp.org/DocLibrary/Policy/DrugShortages/Doxycycline-oral-current-table.pdf

Using this strategy I also found that minocycline, at least, does penetrate the lymph nodes.