Oral Immunization with OspC Does Not Prevent Tick-Borne Borrelia burgdorferi Infection.

Oral vaccination strategies are of interest to prevent transmission of Lyme disease as they can be used to deliver vaccines to humans, pets, and to natural wildlife reservoir hosts of Borrelia burgdorferi. We developed a number of oral vaccines based in E. coli expressing recombinant OspC type K, Os...

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Main Authors: Rita Melo, Luciana Richer, Daniel L Johnson, Maria Gomes-Solecki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4798528?pdf=render