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Article: Antibiotic treatment of tick bites prevents only 20 percent of Lyme disease cases, says Yale researcher.
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- June 15, 2001
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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 June 2001-YALE UNIVERSITY: Antibiotic treatment of tick bites prevents only 20 percent of Lyme disease cases, says Yale researcher (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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New Haven, Conn. -- Even if every patient who noticed they had a tick bite received prompt antibiotic treatment and if it were 100 percent effective in preventing Lyme disease, it would only prevent 20 percent of the total Lyme disease cases, Yale researcher Durland Fish said.
Fish, an author on the New England Journal of Medicine's (NEJM) newly released article on the antibiotic doxycycline's preventative effect on Lyme disease, said the study ...