Dr. Ed Breitschwerdt is an expert on infectious diseases and a doctor of veterinary medicine. He also finds himself on the front lines of a quiet but growing epidemic. Bartonella is a bacteria most commonly associated with cat scratch disease,…
Category: Veterinarian
Dogs Develop Crippling Symptoms after Given Steroids
11th International Research Conference Review by Tom Grier In April of this year, the Lyme Disease Foundation held its 11th International Research Conference on Lyme Disease and other Tick-Borne Illnesses. The focus of this years conference was supposed…
If Veterinarian’s treat Lyme Disease Long Term, Why Don’t Doctors?
I am curious if anyone knows the answer to this. I know humans and animals are different, of course and respond to illness and treatments differently. But research for all illnesses and treatments are done on animals first before humans,…
Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in experimentally infected dogs after antibiotic treatment.
J Clin Microbiol. 1997 January; 35(1): 111–116. Persistence of Borrelia burgdorferi in experimentally infected dogs after antibiotic treatment. R K Straubinger, B A Summers, Y F Chang, and M J Appel Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell…