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Topical retinoids are often recommended for preventing acne recurrence, but there are relatively few well-controlled maintenance studies published. The objective of the present study was to assess the maintenance effect of adapalene gel 0.1% relative to gel vehicle in subjects successfully treated i...
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PMID: 17324827
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We report the case of a 31-year-old woman affected by Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome, who has been successfully treated with lymecycline, after variable results with steroids alone or combined with antihistamines, sulphasalazine and clofazimine....
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PMID: 15246942
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This multicenter, randomized, investigator-blinded study compared the efficacy and tolerability of a combination of lymecycline 300 mg/day orally and adapalene topical gel 0.1% (n = 118) to lymecycline 300 mg/day orally plus vehicle gel (n = 124) in patients with moderate to moderately severe acne v...
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PMID: 12963898
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16/17 (94%) patients reported some kind of back pain and 10/17 (59%) peripheral joint symptoms during the follow up. Two patients had unilateral grade 1 sacroiliitis, one patient grade 4 sacroiliitis, and one patient bilateral grade 2 sacroiliitis. In one patient the disease had progressed to ankylo...
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PMID: 12810429
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We compared the efficacy and safety of lymecycline 300 mg od vs lymecycline 150 mg bid or placebo in the treatment of moderate to severe acne. 271 patients received either oral lymecycline 300 mg od + placebo od, lymecycline 150 mg bid, or placebo bid, for 12 weeks. Reduction in inflammatory lesion...
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PMID: 12609781
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A comparison of efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness of lymecycline and minocycline in the treatment of acne vulgaris has been addressed. This was a multicenter, randomized, investigator-masked, parallel group trial involving patients with moderate to moderately severe acne vulgaris, receiving ei...
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PMID: 12695127
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Patients receiving minocycline 100/50 mg had the best clinical outcome, particularly in the reduction of the number of papules. By the end of the trial, the microbial response to minocycline 100/ 50 mg was also superior to either of the other two treatments. There were less live and more dead bacter...
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PMID: 11867968
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The dissimilar bioavailability and antimicrobial efficacy between the two bacteriostatic agents may impart different clinical efficacy....
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PMID: 9646139
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A multicentre, randomised, double-blind and double-dummy study was conducted to compare the efficacy and safety of lymecycline (n = 71) with that of minocycline (n = 73) in 144 patients with moderately severe acne vulgaris. Patients with an acne score of 1-5 on the Leeds scale received oral lymecycl...
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PMID: 9649660
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BACKGROUND. This double-blind, randomized study evaluated the efficacy of dual and triple therapies including ranitidine for treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Dyspeptic patients (n = 105) with a positive rapid urease test formed the intention-to-treat population (ITT...
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PMID: 9421122
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We report the case of a large subacute pyoderma gangrenosum stabilized with lymecycline, topical benzoyl peroxide and successfully treated by an autograft. This observation supports the opinion that the risk of pathergy of a graft can be avoided by the stabilization of the disease....
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PMID: 9267739
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To compare the clinical and microbiological efficacy of azithromycin in curing chlamydial infections in women with that of lymecycline, and with a view of the possibility of minimizing the problem of compliance by means of single-dose administration, 146 women with culture-positive Chlamydia trachom...
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PMID: 8953672
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Resistance against vaginal colonisation by Mycoplasma pulmonis in strain TO mice after exposure to the mycoplasma was investigated. Eighteen mice from which M. pulmonis had been eliminated from the vagina, either naturally or by antibiotic therapy, were resistant to vaginal recolonisation. Specific...
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PMID: 8114070
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We conclude that doxycycline has a higher phototoxic potency than lymecycline, and this is in agreement with earlier in vitro experimental data. We recommend that therapy with doxycycline is avoided during summer-time, and during holidays in a sunny climate....
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PMID: 8148278
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I or R was respectively: doxycycline (2.7), minocycline (5.5), lymecycline (15.2), erythromycin (100), clindamycin (1.4), ofloxacin (2.7), josamycin (0) and pristinamycin (0). Comparable results were observed in the different geographic areas. The frequency of acquired resistances does not justify m...
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PMID: 8233624
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We sought to determine the antiinflammatory properties of lymecycline in the long-term treatment of reactive arthritis (ReA). METHODS. Quantitative assay of collagenase activity by densitometry after sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. RESULTS. Therapeutic levels of lymecyclin...
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PMID: 1310409
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Serotonin release from rat basophilic leukemia (RBL) cells, sensitized with a DNP-binding monoclonal IgE, was stimulated with solid surface (polystyrene)-bound DNP-amino acids. The stimulatory potency of DNP-amino acids was dependent on the structure of amino acid attached to DNP. Generally, DNP-ami...
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PMID: 1861680
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We studied the wives in 40 consecutive infertile couples. Monoclonal direct immunofluorescence (DIF) for C trachomatis was performed on fixed smears from endocervical swabs. M hominis and U urealyticum were isolated by inoculation of Hayflick (HF) medium, HF broth and Ureaplasma A7 agar with endocer...
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PMID: 2030488
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We conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study of 3-month treatment with lymecycline, a form of tetracycline, in reactive arthritis (ReA). Lymecycline therapy significantly decreased the duration of the illness in patients with Chlamydia trachomatis-triggered ReA, but not in other...
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PMID: 1670621
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In a clinical, controlled trial 55 women with a history of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) undergoing first-trimester abortion were randomized to either lymecycline therapy or placebo. Twenty-four women received lymecycline capsules 300 mg b.i.d. for 14 days starting on the morning of the abortion...
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PMID: 3061846
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In a study at the University Hospital in Trondheim during 1983, the frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis among women terminating their pregnancies was 8.2%. Younger women were infected by C. trachomatis at a more frequent rate than older women (p less than 0.001). Treatment of chlamydia-positive women...
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PMID: 3387707
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Electron beam therapy applied to a lymph node metastasis from a squamous cell carcinoma was followed by the development of histologically and immunologically typical bullous pemphigoid, the lesions being initially strictly confined to the irradiation area. This observation suggests that the bullous...
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PMID: 2963841
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A double blind cross-over phototoxicity study using demethylchlortetracycline (DMCT) 0.3 g x 2, doxycycline 0.1 g x 2, lymecycline 0.6 g x 2 and placebo was performed on 8 healthy human volunteers. Drugs were given for 3 consecutive days, and on the third day the volunteers were tested with differen...
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PMID: 3127815
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Motile curved rods, Mobiluncus species, were identified in 20 women whose main complaints were sparse vaginal bleeding and/or foul-smelling discharge. After treatment with metronidazole all the women were free of symptoms and no Mobiluncus could be detected.
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PMID: 3946485
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Seventy-five men with gonococcal urethritis were treated with a single oral dose of thiamphenicol, and 88 men with this infection were treated with two 1.5-g oral doses of lymecycline taken 12 hr apart. Of the 75 subjects treated with thiamphenicol, 72 (96%) were cured, as compared with 80 (91%) tre...
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PMID: 3094172
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A clinical, controlled trial was performed to study the effect of prophylaxis with lymecycline and the role of Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma hominis in postabortal genital infection. Of 532 women who were to undergo first-trimester abortion, 269 were randomized to treatment with oral lymecycl...
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PMID: 3890229
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In an open, random, cross-over trial, 8 young healthy volunteers were given standard doses of lymecycline and doxycycline for 2 days to achieve steady state. The pharmacokinetics of each tetracycline in serum and dermal, suction blister fluid were determined after oral doses of 300 mg lymecycline or...
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PMID: 4028871
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The relative bioavailability of lymecycline and tetracycline hydrochloride was compared in 12 healthy volunteers in a double-blind cross-over study using a high performance liquid chromatographic method for plasma and urine analyses. A statistical significant difference in favour of tetracycline hyd...
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PMID: 6487493
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Results of sensitivity to antibiotic in vitro and results of antibiotic treatment in vivo seem to recognize so far lymecycline as the tetracycline to prescribe in infections by mycoplasmas.
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PMID: 6410346
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The interaction between glucocorticoids and antibiotics in the treatment of brain abscesses has been examined in rats. After stereotactic inoculation of Bacteroides melaninogenicus in the right frontal lobe to induce abscess formation, the animals were divided into two groups those treated with anti...
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PMID: 6841306
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Medication with oral drugs has not been considered as a cause of esophageal lesions in the general literature of esophageal disease. This study demonstrates 40 patients with complaints of sudden onset of intense retrosternal pains and odynophagia during treatment with oral tetracyclines. All patient...
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PMID: 6823189
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Concentration of lymecycline, a lipophilic tetracycline, in the human sinusal mucosa tissue, as measured by the "punch method" technique are fairly high. The median value of all examined pieces of mucosa amounts to 1.2 mcg/g.
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PMID: 6417972
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After evaluation of the clinical efficacy and the tolerance of lymecycline 2 x 300 mg/day in patients with subacute sinusitis, we may conclude that lymecycline can be considered a first choice antibioticum in the treatment of acute and subacute sinusitis (Tetralysal).
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PMID: 6650154
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A comparison between different methods of determining the levels of lymecycline in tissue is presented. The drug levels have been compared with those registered, during the steady state condition, in interstitial fluid obtained from subcutaneously implated tissue cages in rabbits. The 'tissue piece...
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PMID: 6822773
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On the basis of a comparison of different methods used to determine the concentration of active lymecycline in Fallopian tube tissue, a method was adopted which allowed the determination of lymecycline in serosa and mucosa tissue of the Fallopian tube in 16 women undergoing hysterectomy. A differenc...
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PMID: 7046335
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A group of 782 patients with a diagnosis of acute salpingitis (a few of the patients because of other infection in the pelvis) were treated with the recommended oral dose of doxycycline (200 mg the first day and 100 mg once daily for at least the following 9-12 days) in combination with 1 g benzyl p...
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PMID: 7090752
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The treatment of chlamydial urethritis in males depends on the susceptibility of Chlamydia trachomatis to different antimicrobial agents. Tetracyclines seem to be the drugs of choice; long-acting tetracyclines are recommended, as these are more convenient for the patient. Both lymecycline and doxycy...
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PMID: 6958014
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Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from the urethra in 71 of 275 men primarily attending the outpatient clinic of the Department of Urology because of symptoms of acute urethritis, and with more than four polymorphonuclear leukocytes in each of at least five fields of the swabbed urethral exudate (x...
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PMID: 6172944
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A group of 213 men with non-gonococcal urethritis and their sexual partners were treated either with erythromycin stearate 500 mgx2 for 15 days or with lymecycline 300 mgx2 for 10 or 20 days. Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from 40% of the men, from 26% of their female partners and from 56% of th...
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PMID: 87096
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The influence of 2 etracycline preparations, lymecycline and doxycycline, on leukocyte chemotaxis, was investigated in vitro and in vivo. Doxycycline in high concentrations caused a severe depression of both spontaneous and induced migration, an effect which was more pronounced than that caused by s...
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PMID: 462129
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It has been suggested in the past that milk causes an impaired absorption of tetracycline and this paper describes a study set up to examine any inhibition of absorption of a tetracycline derivative, lymecycline (Tetralysal) with the concurrent intake of milk. The results of the study show no clinic...
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PMID: 583042
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The effect of lymecycline treatment on arthritis in C3H mice produced 5 months previously by i.v. inoculation of Mycoplasma pulmonis was examined. Treatment had little effect on the severity of the clinical disease. However, there was a marked reduction the severity of the histopathological inflamma...
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PMID: 656320
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The urine and serum concentrations of lymecycline and doxycycline were investigated in a cross-over study in ten volunteers. Both drugs were found in therapeutic serum levels but lymecycline had a mean urine concentration of 240 microgram per ml compared to 60 microgram per ml of doxycycline. The re...
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PMID: 732594
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A micro-method was developed for determination of the concentrations of antibiotics in the mucous membranes of the maxillary sinus in man. At different times after the administration of antibiotics (potassium phenoxymethylpenicillin, lymecycline and bacampicillin) the concentration was determined in...
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PMID: 100874
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Men with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) were divided into two groups and treated with either lymecycline or tinidazole; anaerobic cultures were performed before and after treatment. Neither treatment affected the anaerobic flora. However, the men treated with lymecycline were relieved of symptoms a...
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PMID: 606333
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One thousand and sixty patients with non-specific urethritis were treated with lymecycline (Tetralysal). An initial course of 600mg 12-hourly for one week was successful in 90.5% of cases, while 2% responded to a further course of 300mg 12-hourly for three weeks.
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PMID: 1071140
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A single-blind comparison of lymecycline and amoxycillin was performed by three general practitioners in the treatment of acute bronchitis. A total of 132 patients were treated for seven days with lymecycline (204 mg) two capsules twice daily or amoxycillin 250 mg three times daily. Symptoms and sig...
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PMID: 799979
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