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Article: Babesiosis Coinfection Changes Lyme Disease Management.(Brief Article)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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TORONTO -- Patients with moderate to severe Lyme disease could be coinfected by the agent that causes babesiosis, Dr. Charles Thompson reported in a poster at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology.
Babesiosis coinfection can exacerbate the symptoms of Lyme disease. It is important to diagnose babesiosis because treatments for the two infections are completely different, Dr. Paul Krause, who collaborated on the study, said in an interview with this newspaper.
The first-line treatment for Lyme disease in adults is 100 mg doxycycline b.i.d. The first-line treatment for ...