On the trail of a vaccine for Lyme disease: Yale researchers target tick saliva
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
New Haven, Conn. -- A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the November 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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