Vaccination of natural reservoir hosts with recombinant lipidated OspA induces a transmission-blocking immunity against Lyme disease spirochaetes associated with high levels of LA-2 equivalent antibodies

Vaccine

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1670-1674

  Kurtenbach, Klaus ^a,b   Dizij, Astrid ^c   Voet, Pierre ^d   Hauser, Pierre ^d   Simon, Markus M ^e  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS   (Belgium)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdoirferi; Ixodes; Ricinus; Rodents; Transmission blocking immunity

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE; TICK; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ARVICOLINAE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; IXODES; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MURIDAE; VACCINATION; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0030765380     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(97)00086-8     Document Type: Article

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