Saturday, March 29, 2025

As I was saying...

Persica’s antibiotic-based drug alleviates lower back pain in Phase Ib trial

Evidence has shown that a sub-group of patients, approximately 25%, with chronic lower back pain have an indolent infection in the disc space...

Unfortunately this drug only works on gram positive bacteria... not PG.

Spinal discs are made of collagen which is degraded by PG gingipains.