Borrelia burgdorferi- a corkscrew- shaped bacterium living in ticks.
It may depend on which species of Borrelia is involved.
Today, nine months later, I'm still using the Borrelia program.
Lyme disease is
primarily caused by infected ticks which carry Borrelia type bacteria and transmit it to human body.
Many MDs will use antibiotics- but will use them for a longer time period and often will use combine them with other
antibiotics to make sure all the life-cycle phases of the Borrelia are killed off.
There is however, a controversy as to how long antibiotics should be used,
should there be a combination of antibiotics used(because the Borrelia organism can go through a number of life-cycles that are antibiotic resistant)
and there questions about whether some patients go through a relapse.
People can get Lyme disease(LD)
if they are bitten by a tick that carries the Borrelia organism- just because you have been bit,
doesn't mean you will get Lyme disease though- we don't really know what predisposes one person to get Lyme disease while another person only has a short phase of illness- and yet another never seems to have any symptoms at all.