How to Use doxycycline in a Sentence

doxycycline

noun

• Giving the animals doxycycline would start reversing the clock, and stopping the drug would halt the process.
  — Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• Two antibiotics are used to treat syphilis, the injectable penicillin and an oral drug called doxycycline.
  — Catherine Sweeney, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• To try to turn the tide, many doctors see promise in doxycycline, a cheap antibiotic that has been sold for more than 50 years.
  — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 11 Apr. 2023
• The faster those people can get treated with the antibiotics doxycycline or amoxicillin, the better their chances of having a short, mild case of the disease.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 June 2023
• The Missouri patient was treated with doxycycline for four weeks, and his symptoms resolved.
  — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
• Some infections like Babesia can’t be treated with doxycycline and need to be treated with a parasite medicine.
  — Cathy Cassata, Fox News, 23 June 2018
• He was then prescribed the appropriate treatment, which in this case was a 10-day course of the antibiotic doxycycline.
  — Fox News, 6 Aug. 2021
• If that doesn't work: Treat inflammation from the inside out with a course of oral antibiotics (like doxycycline or minocycline).
  — Kelsey Castañon, Seventeen, 14 Dec. 2017
• Once the women were prescribed daily doxycycline, syphilis vanished among them.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 18 July 2024
• In the case of the two patients from the report, the female patient received the antibiotic doxycycline and fully recovered.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some doctors may prescribe doxycycline after a tick bite to lower your risk of Lyme disease.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2024
• And research has found that sarecycline doesn’t affect gut bacteria the same way that doxycycline or minocycline do.
  — Stacey Colino, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• Leptospirosis is treated with antibiotics, such as doxycycline or penicillin, which should be given early on in the course of the disease.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2021
• The studies found that a single dose of doxycycline could more than halve the rate of bacterial infection in MSM and transgender women.
  — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2023
• This isn’t the first study to demonstrate doxycycline’s effectiveness as a preventive treatment for STIs.
  — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 21 Apr. 2023
• Caught quickly, a course of the antibiotic doxycycline can usually save a patient's life.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2017
• If treated with either doxycycline or an antibacterial agent within the first one to four days, the symptoms won’t worsen.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• Five years ago, a doctor told him about research into whether doxycycline might protect people from other diseases.
  — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 11 Apr. 2023
• The standard treatment is two weeks of an antibiotic such as doxycycline or amoxicillin.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
• In certain circumstances, health care providers can administer a single dose of doxycycline after a tick bite to reduce risk of disease.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2024
• In those cases, if the tick was attached for at least 36 hours, doctors will often prescribe a single dose of the antibiotic doxycycline as a preventive measure.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• While there isn’t a definitive treatment regimen for this condition, the antibiotic doxycycline has been shown to help patients who have it, the CDC says.
  — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 26 July 2019
• But, so far, a two-week course of doxycycline or amoxicillin antibiotics seems to do the trick for most cases, with IV-antibiotic treatments being used in severe cases.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2023
• Kong and other experts are also concerned about the impact routine doxycycline use may have on people’s microbiomes.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2023
• Snyder was right, and able to get a prescription for the antibiotic doxycycline, which quickly took care of the bacterial infection.
  — Randy Rieland, Smithsonian, 18 Jan. 2017
• There are many struggles with treatment, which is typically a few weeks of doxycycline, an antibiotic.
  — Jennifer Sala, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2022
• For most patients, taking the antibiotic doxycycline can treat symptoms of Lyme.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
• The antibiotic doxycycline has been around for more than four decades and is commonly used to treat and prevent acne and Lyme disease, as well as to prevent malaria, reports Jon Cohen for Science.
  — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2022
• Handel says doxycycline is the most effective treatment option.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• In 2010, the CDC updated the treatment again, recommending that doctors combine cephalosporins with one of two other types of antibiotics—azithromycin or doxycycline—to try to thwart the development of resistance.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024