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Article: Early Lyme Disease: Doxycycline for 10 Days as Good as 2O. (Randomized Trial).(Brief Article)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- December 1, 2001
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Ten days of doxycycline are as effective as 20 for the treatment of early Lyme disease with erythema migrans, Dr. Gary P. Wormser reported at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, with roughly 16,000 cases reported annually. The trend in recent years has been for longer and longer courses of antibiotic therapy for early Lyme disease, but there have been no clinical trials data on which to base treatment duration, said Dr. Wormser of New York Medical College, Valhalla.
He and his fellow investigators organized a randomized double-blind ...