Specialised in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of chronic, multisystemic infectious diseases.
„Diagnostics is detective work – those who want to understand chronic multisystem diseases must look beyond the boundaries of individual specialties.“
Dr. Philippe Bottero is an experienced specialist in infectiology. He has dedicated himself to the clinical diagnosis and treatment of chronic, multisystemic infectious diseases. His work encompasses the differential diagnostics of complex clinical conditions where chronic infections play a central role. With his clinical experience from direct patient care, he brings valuable practical knowledge to the scientific discussion around Lyme disease and related conditions. Over the past decades he established practice-oriented guidelines helping to distinguish between post-infectious syndromes and active, masked infections.
Integrated infectious medicine requires a holistic approach in which biomarkers, T-cell reactivities and clinical symptoms are considered in a complex network. Dr. Bottero focuses on the persistent biofilm structures through which Borrelia and co-pathogens evade standard antibiotic therapy.
Two weeks of antibiotics kill every bacterial infection.
False. Specialized pathogens form persistent cysts and niches in which they remain inactive for months until environmental factors reactivate them.
Member of the VBCI e.V. Scientific Advisory Board. Advises the association on clinical infectiology and differential diagnostics.
Why do some Lyme disease patients not recover despite antibiotics? Learn how biofilm structures and persistence forms (cysts, L-forms) evade antibiotics and what modern combination therapies can do about it.