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Binenbaum Y, Ben-Ami R, Baneth G, Langford B, Negev Y, Friedlander E, Shasha D, Tau L, Paran Y. Single Dose of Doxycycline for the Prevention of Tick-borne Relapsing Fever. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 71:1768-1771. [PMID: 31955197 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The current postexposure prophylaxis regimen for tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) consists of 5 days' doxycycline. In this observational study of 77 spelunkers at high risk for TBRF, a single dose of 100 mg doxycycline taken up to 72 hours after exposure to ticks was 100% effective in preventing the disease.
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- Yoav Binenbaum
- Dana Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.,Laboratory of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.,Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.,Infectious Diseases Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Israel Cave Research Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Israel Cave Research Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Dana Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.,Infectious Diseases Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.,Infectious Diseases Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.,Infectious Diseases Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Urban C, Rahal JJ, Dattwyller RJ, Gorevic P, Luft BJ. Penicillin-binding proteins in Borrelia burgdorferi. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:6139-41. [PMID: 2211530 PMCID: PMC526942 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.10.6139-6141.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Penicillin-binding proteins were identified in Borrelia burgdorferi membranes. A 94-kilodalton penicillin-binding protein was the first to be labeled with tritiated penicillin and was the first band to disappear in a competition experiment. Its binding ability was destroyed when membranes were preboiled. In addition, several of these penicillin-binding proteins comigrated with bands previously identified as surface proteins.
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- C Urban
- Department of Medicine, Booth Memorial Medical Center, Flushing, New York 11355
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Barbour AG, Todd WJ, Stoenner HG. Action of penicillin on Borrelia hermsii. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1982; 21:823-9. [PMID: 7103461 PMCID: PMC182019 DOI: 10.1128/aac.21.5.823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Borrelia hermsii, a spirochete and an etiological agent of relapsing fever, was cultivated in modified Kelly medium. Studies of the action of penicillin on B. hermsii strain HS1 revealed the following: (i) the in vitro minimum inhibitory concentration and minimum bactericidal concentration of benzylpenicillin for this strain were 0.4 and 3.1 nmol/ml (0.15 and 1.1 micrograms/ml), respectively; (ii) the primary morphological responses at the minimum bactericidal concentration of benzylpenicillin were the formation of spheroplast-like structures and an increased number of small, membranous blebs; (iii) radioactive benzylpenicillin bound to five penicillin-binding proteins in the whole cells of B. hermsii. The 50% binding concentrations of labeled penicillin for the five penicillin-binding proteins were within a factor of five of the minimum inhibitory concentration. More than one-half of the total bound labeled penicillin was associated with penicillin-binding protein 1, the penicillin-binding protein with the largest apparent molecular weight (90,000).
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THOMPSON PE, WALKER DF, DUNN MC. Chemotherapy of experimental relapsing fever in mice with antibiotics and synthetic compounds. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION 1953; 42:647-52. [PMID: 13108758 DOI: 10.1002/jps.3030421102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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