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== Treatment == [[File:Borrelia burgdorferi-cropped.jpg|225px|thumb|right|Spirochete, or “corkscrew-shaped” bacteria known as Borrelia burgdorferi]] *[[Centers for Disease Control & Prevention]] (CDC) on Treatment ::Patients treated with appropriate antibiotics in the early stages of Lyme disease usually recover rapidly and completely. Antibiotics commonly used for oral treatment include [[doxycycline]], [[amoxicillin]], or [[cefuroxime axetil]]. Patients with certain neurological or cardiac forms of illness may require intravenous treatment with drugs such as [[ceftriaxone]] or [[penicillin]].<ref name="CDC-treatment">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/treatment/index.html | title = Treatment {{!}} Lyme Disease {{!}} CDC | date = 2017-12-13 | website = [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]|language=en-us|access-date=2018-08-13}}</ref> * 2006, [http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/9/1089.full The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America]<ref name="guidelines2006">{{Cite journal|last = Wormser | first = Gary P. | last2 = Dattwyler | first2 = Raymond J. | last3 = Shapiro | first3 = Eugene D. | last4 = Halperin | first4 = John J. | last5 = Steere | first5 = Allen C. | last6 = Klempner | first6 = Mark S. | last7 = Krause | first7 = Peter J. | last8 = Bakken | first8 = Johan S. | last9 = Strle | first9 = Franc | date = 2006-11-01 | title = The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America|url=https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/43/9/1089/422463|journal=Clinical Infectious Diseases|language=en|volume=43|issue=9|pages=1089–1134|doi=10.1086/508667|issn=1537-6591}}</ref>
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