Antibiotic treatment of experimentally Borrelia burgdorferi-infected ponies
| Autor: | Alfonso Torres, Yu-We Ku, Chao-Fu Chang, Margaret Pough, Yung-Fu Chang, Thomas J. Divers, Ching Dong Chang, Sean P. McDonough |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Bacterial Male Tetracycline medicine.drug_class Biopsy Antibiotics Blotting Western Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Microbiology Polymerase Chain Reaction Lyme disease Borrelia medicine Animals Horses Borrelia burgdorferi Doxycycline Lyme Disease General Veterinary biology Ixodes Histocytochemistry General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Antibodies Bacterial Anti-Bacterial Agents Cephalosporins Immunology Lyme disease microbiology Female Horse Diseases Ceftiofur medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Veterinary microbiology. 107(3-4) |
| ISSN: | 0378-1135 |
| Popis: | The objective of this study is to determine whether doxycycline, ceftiofur or tetracycline could be effectively used to treat equine Lyme disease. Ponies experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi by tick exposure were treated with doxycycline, ceftiofur or tetracycline for 4 weeks (28 days). Doxycyline and ceftiofur treatment were inconsistent in eliminating persistent infection in this experimental model. However, tetracycline treatment seems to eliminate persistent infection. Although serum antibody levels to B. burgdorferi in all ponies declined gradually after antibiotic treatment, three out of four ponies treated with doxycline and two out of four ponies treated with ceftiofur, serum KELA titers were raised again 3 month after treatment was discontinued. Five months after antibiotic treatment, tissues aseptically collected at necropsy from ponies with increased antibody levels after antibiotic treatment also showed culture positive to B. burgdorferi in various post-mortem tissues. However, all four-tetracycline treatment ponies showed a negative antibody level and culture negative from post-mortem tissues. Untreated infected ponies maintained high KELA titers throughout the study and were tissue culture positive. |
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