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New Zhang Persister Study

duncan

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This is great stuff.

I can feel an elephant in the wording room. Not sure if it's Johns Hopkins or the IDSA or good, cautious science.
 

Antares in NYC

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26903956

Looks like this is going to be at least part of the answer for some people.
So chronic Lyme is real. Borrelia persistence is a demonstrable thing that can only be tackled by pulsed amounts of very heavy antibiotics.

Time to start calling borrelia a superbug? It would only be fair.

PS: yes, @duncan, I too wait for the other shoe to drop. Wormser's public statement claiming "concerns" about the study is coming up in 3, 2, 1...