Ghanaian Quinine Completely Eliminated Lyme Disease bacteria in vitro

Remarkably, a single 7-day treatment with 1% Ghanaian quinine could completely eradicate the bacterium – it did not regrow, even under optimal conditions in the drug’s absence.

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Feng Jie, Leone Jacob, Schweig Sunjya, Zhang Ying, Evaluation of Natural and Botanical Medicines for Activity Against Growing and Non-growing Forms of B. burgdorferi, Frontiers in Medicine VOLUME 7 2020 https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2020.00006 DOI 10.3389/fmed.2020.00006

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.00006/full#supplementary-material

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