Researchers' discovery may explain difficulty in treating Lyme disease

Monday, June 1, 2015 - 11:01 in Health & Medicine

The bac­terium that causes Lyme dis­ease forms dor­mant per­sister cells, which are known to evade antibi­otics, researchers have discovered. This sig­nif­i­cant finding, they said, could help explain why it's so dif­fi­cult to treat the infec­tion in some patients.

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