Hi, and welcome back to the course all about Lyme disease from diagnosis to treatment and prevention. In this last lecture, I'll focus on treatment and prevent treatment for Lyme disease is with antibiotics. The most common and effective antibiotics are Dr. Phil in amoxicillin and set her off site. In severe cases IV antibiotics are prescribed such as Secretary of song or penicillin. Some cases after antibody treatment, the blood tests will no longer show antibodies against girlfriend birth, arthritis and other conditions may still remain. These cases are known as post treatment Lyme disease syndrome and it could be due to an autoimmune reaction with humans.

Treatment with antibiotics, which can extend in two weeks is controversial in the case of Lyme disease. As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure. So avoiding wooded areas and using insect reference are some ways to avoid contact with once attached to the skin, it would be ideal as the vector remained in the skin for about 72 hours. However, this technique requires caution, as parts of the tick may remain burrowed under the skin and that's always the probability of infection by borrelia burgdorferi. vaccine production has its challenges. That's because a lot of things that act This antigens keep changing their genetic configuration especially in the case of the lack of protein vlsc.

Currently, a Dao vaccine is available. Here single, Epstein was also circulating. It was removed due to side effects. Therefore vaccine research and vaccine tests are still ongoing for Lyme disease.