{"id":9408,"date":"2025-05-07T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9408"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:07:41","slug":"critical-breakthrough-in-understanding-and-possibly-eradicating-lyme-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/07\/critical-breakthrough-in-understanding-and-possibly-eradicating-lyme-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Breakthrough in Understanding and Possibly Eradicating Lyme Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wibx950.com\/lyme-disease-breakthrough-by-researchers\/\">WIBX<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at VCU submitted their findings to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/mbio.03728-24\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"mBio, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mBio<\/a>, claiming they discovered &#8220;the Achilles\u2019 heel of Lyme disease bacterium&nbsp;<em>Borreliella burgdorferi<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weakness is found in the Lyme-causing bacteria itself, which is the\u00a0lactate dehydrogenase (BbLDH) enzyme. Researchers say it is the crucial ingredient that helps the bacteria grow\u00a0and spread through an infected host&#8217;s body. This unique enzyme is not found in any other microorganisms, researchers say, and offer that Lyme-causing bacteria cannot spread without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers within the medical field are celebrating because this could change how we fight Lyme Disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wibx950.com\/lyme-disease-breakthrough-by-researchers\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" EAojT  I zAC EwqUPe VfyCTdgnT\"> EAojT  I zAC EwqUPe VfyCTdgnT<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIBX Researchers at VCU submitted their findings to&nbsp;mBio, claiming they discovered &#8220;the Achilles\u2019 heel of Lyme disease bacterium&nbsp;Borreliella burgdorferi.&#8221; The weakness is found in the Lyme-causing bacteria itself, which is the\u00a0lactate dehydrogenase (BbLDH) enzyme. Researchers say it is the crucial ingredient that helps the bacteria grow\u00a0and spread through an infected host&#8217;s body. This unique enzyme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9409,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions\/9409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}