Lymecycline is a tetracycline-type antibiotic that is most often prescribed to treat acne (spots).

It’s also used to treat bacterial infections such as bronchitis, pneumonia and mycoplasma infections, some sexually-transmitted infections and trachoma (a form of conjunctivitis). Additionally, it is used to treat infections transmitted by ticks, lice, fleas and mites, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus group, Q fever and Coxiella endocarditis and tick fevers.