How to Use doxycycline in a Sentence

doxycycline

noun
  • Two antibiotics are used to treat syphilis, the injectable penicillin and an oral drug called doxycycline.
    — Catherine Sweeney, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Once the women were prescribed daily doxycycline, syphilis vanished among them.
    — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 18 July 2024
  • But a dose of doxycycline or amoxicillin can generally cure it.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Giving the animals doxycycline would start reversing the clock, and stopping the drug would halt the process.
    — Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • These keep minocycline and doxycycline from getting fully absorbed.
    — Megan Nunn, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
  • The Missouri patient was treated with doxycycline for four weeks, and his symptoms resolved.
    — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Adults can be treated with doxycycline, a type of antibiotic that prevents the growth and spread of bacteria.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 12 Oct. 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
  • People who are co-infected with one or more of those diseases along with babesiosis are more likely to be treated with doxycycline as well.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Five years ago, a doctor told him about research into whether doxycycline might protect people from other diseases.
    — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 11 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The standard treatment is two weeks of an antibiotic such as doxycycline or amoxicillin.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Powders are added to the mix, cracked open from capsules of pills like doxycycline, an antibiotic that treats acne as well as infections.
    — Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Caught quickly, a course of the antibiotic doxycycline can usually save a patient's life.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2017
  • Handel says doxycycline is the most effective treatment option.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
  • These include quinolones such as Cipro (ciprofloxacin) and tetracyclines such as Doryx (doxycycline).
    — Megan Nunn, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2026
  • There are many struggles with treatment, which is typically a few weeks of doxycycline, an antibiotic.
    — Jennifer Sala, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2022
  • Some antibiotics, such as minocycline and doxycycline, can treat prurigo pigmentosa.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 29 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many patients are taking doxycycline or Accutane.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The expression could be turned on or off using the antibiotic doxycycline, which allowed for time-specific testing.
    — New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
  • For most patients, taking the antibiotic doxycycline can treat symptoms of Lyme.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • 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

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