Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

In some cases (25%), there is a red, ring-like rash that occurs at the site of ... Symptoms usually appear 3 to 16 days after a tick bite. The same ticks that carry Lyme Disease can also transmit ...

Lyme disease is probably the most widely known disease that can result from a bite from the black-legged tick (a.k.a. deer tick, Ixodes scapularis). According to Purdue Medical Entomology, the ...