Re: Ceftriaxone Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-Like Bb Persisters
by duncan » Fri 9 Dec 2016 22:47
Don't get me wrong - I am a big fan of some Lyme researchers - well-published ones, too. Names that come to mind include Lewis and Zhang and Embers and Aucott.
Fine, but Lewis and Zhang are not long-time LD researchers. They simply applied some familiar behaviors of stationary-phase bacteria to Bb. Embers is virologist who studied HPV until she found an Assist. Prof. position at Tulane’s monkey farm. John Aucott’s position as Hopkins faculty seems as tenuous as my own office space and title at the University of _______. He’s the sole physician at the obscure JHU LD Research Ctr., and both he and Embers seem to spend more of their time maintaining ties to private LD foundations (Bay Area Lyme Foundation, LymeMD, LymeInnovation) than doing fundamental research or collaborating with the two generations of active, productive LD investigators.
I’m not impressed with your choices; you’ve picked bearers of seemingly good news over bearers of real news. A common but serious phenomenon in modern society.