Single Dose of Doxycycline for the Prevention of Tick-borne Relapsing Fever.

The current postexposure prophylaxis regimen for tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) consists of 5 days' doxycycline. In this observational study of 77 spelunkers at high risk for TBRF, a single dose of 100 mg doxycycline taken up to 72 hours after exposure to ticks was 100% effective in preventing the disease. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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Yoav Binenbaum, Ronen Ben-Ami, Gad Baneth, Boaz Langford, Yoav Negev, Edwa Friedlander, David Shasha, Luba Tau, Yael Paran. Single Dose of Doxycycline for the Prevention of Tick-borne Relapsing Fever. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2020 Oct 23;71(7):1768-1771

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