On the trail of a vaccine for Lyme disease: Yale researchers tar...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 11/18/2009 - 23:00

(Yale University) A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered.

The findings, published in the Nov. 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur development of a new vaccine against infection from Lyme disease, which is spread through tick bites.


 

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