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Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

For Treatment...

Combo of three drugs (1 sulfa, 2 others) were most effective.

https://sites.google.com/site/marylandlyme/treatment/combo-of-antibiotics--effectiveness-in-lab-tests

Posted by foxy loxy (Member # 47053) on :

Thanks! Tincup... That was interesting...

Man, I wish something could slay the dragon!

Posted by WakeUp (Member # 9977) on :

Nice results--- thanks for posting:

QUOTE FROM STUDY-
"We found that sulfa drugs combined with other antibiotics were more active than their respective single drugs and that four-drug combinations were more active than three-drug combinations. Four drug combinations dapsone+minocycline+cefuroxime+azithromycin and dapsone+minocycline+cefuroxime+rifampin showed best activity against stationary phase B. burgdorferi in these sulfa drug combinations.

However, these 4-sulfa drug containing combinations still had considerably less activity against B. burgdorferi stationary phase cells than the daptomycin+cefuroxime+doxycycline used as a positive control which completely eradicated B. burgdorferi stationary phase cells."

I don't know what stationary phase cells are--- but perhaps they are cysts.