Many docs say it is, but there is a substantial minority opinion that Lyme is a much more complex
disease than run-of-the-mill infections and requires much longer treatment, because the
Lyme bacteria have particular characteristics that allow them to evade a short course of abx: the Lyme bacteria have a very slow reproductive cycle, and antibiotics are effective mostly when the bacteria are dividing, therefore a longer course of treatment is called for, as is done in tuberculosis (usual treat