Blog Log: Spirochetes Unwound on Flawed Study of Topical Antibiotics

Remember that article on topical azithromycin I posted earlier this month?

Our favorite spirochete blogger has some criticism about the research on which it was based here:

http://spirochetesunwound.blogspot.com/2011/09/flawed-study-claiming-prevention-of.html

A flawed study claiming prevention of Lyme spirochete infection with topical antibiotics

Two recent papers tested the effectiveness of topical antibiotics in preventing Borrelia burgdorferi infection in mice following a tick bite. Infection by the Lyme disease spirochete was successfully halted in the Knauer et al. study from Germany1 but not in the Wormser et al. study conducted in New York.2 However a flaw in the Knauer study may have unfairly tipped the outcome in the antbiotic's favor. (I'll save the Wormser study for another post.)

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