Doxycycline (doxycycline)

• Rickettsial infections: people with Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus fever and related infections, Q fever, rickettsialpox or tick fevers (illnesses spread by ticks, lice or fleas).
• Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections: people with infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a germ that often infects the lungs.
• Psittacosis (parrot fever): people with psittacosis or ornithosis, an infection spread by birds.
• Lymphogranuloma venereum and granuloma inguinale: people with these sexually transmitted infections.
• Relapsing fever: people with relapsing fever caused by Borrelia recurrentis (an illness spread by lice).
• Chancroid: people with chancroid, a sexually transmitted infection that causes sores.
• Plague and tularemia: people with plague or tularemia (rabbit fever).
• Bartonellosis: people with infection caused by Bartonella bacilliformis.
• Bacteroides infections: people with infections caused by Bacteroides bacteria.
• Cholera and Campylobacter fetus infections: people with cholera or Campylobacter fetus infection.
• Brucellosis: people with brucellosis, given together with the antibiotic streptomycin.
• Other gram-negative infections: people with infections caused by E. coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Shigella or Acinetobacter, respiratory infections caused by Haemophilus influenzae, or respiratory and urinary infections caused by Klebsiella, when lab tests show the germ is sensitive to doxycycline.
• Some gram-positive infections: people with infections caused by Streptococcus bacteria (including Streptococcus pneumoniae) or with respiratory, skin and soft tissue infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus, when lab tests show the germ is sensitive to doxycycline.
• Anthrax: people with anthrax, including people who breathed in anthrax germs, to lower the chance of getting sick or getting worse.
• Infections when penicillin cannot be used: people who cannot take penicillin and have gonorrhea, meningococcal infection, syphilis, yaws, Listeria, Clostridium, Vincent's infection (trench mouth) or actinomycosis.
• Acute intestinal amebiasis: people with a gut infection caused by amoebas (tiny parasites), as an add-on to medicines that treat the amoebas.
• Trachoma: people with trachoma, an eye infection.

A prescription is required. Your prescriber decides whether Doxycycline is right for you.

IV infusion, given by a healthcare professional. When your prescriber agrees it can be given at home, we send a skilled nurse from an accredited nursing agency to give it.

Before the first dose, your prescriber may ask for:

• a culture and sensitivity test (a lab test of a sample) for some types of bacteria, because many strains resist this group of antibiotics
• for a sexually transmitted infection when syphilis may also be present, a dark-field exam (a microscope test of a sore) before treatment, then follow-up blood tests

Read the Medication Guide and the full Doxycycline prescribing information, and ask your prescriber or our pharmacists about side effects. Our pharmacists are on call 24 hours a day.

Health plans often require prior authorization for Doxycycline. Our intake team checks your coverage and works with your prescriber’s office on the paperwork before your first delivery.

Offices can call (844) 671-2600 or fax a referral to (844) 671-2601. Referral forms for each specialty are on our referral forms page.