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View Post: HHMI News: Tick Saliva: New Target for Lyme Disease Vaccine
19 Nov 2009
A protein found in the saliva of ticks may prove to be an attractive target for a new type of Lyme disease vaccine. In studies in mice, Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers at Yale University produced an antiserum against a ...
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View Post: On the Trail of a Vaccine for Lyme Disease: Yale Researchers ...
18 Nov 2009
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 ...
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View Post: Tick Saliva: New Target for Lyme Disease Vaccine : Target Health ...
23 Nov 2009 by targethealth  
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, November 23, 2009 – A protein found in the saliva of ticks may prove to be an attractive target for a new type of Lyme disease vaccine. In studies in mice, Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers at ...
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View Post: Tick Saliva: New Target for Lyme Disease Vaccine
25 Nov 2009 by Alfie  
Combine the two and you might have a very good vaccine. Each mouse was then exposed to 10 ticks carrying the Lyme-disease bacteria. We immunized with both together and found out that wasnt the case, he said. The combined impact of the ...
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View Post: Futurity.org – Stopping Lyme disease with tick saliva
18 Nov 2009 by Helen Dodson-Yale  
Researchers are targeting a protein found in tick saliva to develop a possible vaccine for a Lyme disease infection. The team hopes the approach will prove useful in efforts to stop the spread of West Nile virus infection, dengue fever, ...
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View Post: BurlingtonPost.com: News: Story: Lyme disease activist speaks of ...
26 Nov 2009
Doctors remain divided on the existence of the disease, treatment and testing, said Manten. Ironically, veterinarians are leading the way in Canada for Lyme disease prevention. While there is no vaccine for humans there is one for dogs, ...
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