Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by the borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. The infection is notoriously difficult to treat. The only option is currently antibiotics, and in roughly 20% of cases, people who have gone through treatment still go on to develop chronic Lyme – a persistent form of the disease that can continue to wreak havoc on the body long after the initial infection has subsided.
Scientific researchers have spent years studying the structure, function, and illness caused by Lyme bacteria in an effort to develop a better way to rid a person of the infection. While a lot of that research has been helpful, we haven’t yet devised a new treatment or cure for Lyme. However, new research surrounding borrelia’s unusual peptidoglycan may change everything in regard to Lyme disease and how it’s treated.
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