A team of medical scientists at Laboratoire de Santé Animale, working with colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Nature Research Centre and the University of Guelph, has developed a type of vaccine meant to reduce the ability of ticks to transmit the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. In their paper published in the journal Microbiome, the group describes their approach to reducing the threat of Lyme disease by reducing the ability of ticks to host the bacteria behind the disease.
As scientists continue to look for a vaccine to prevent people from being infected with Borrelia afzelii, Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia mayonii, bacteria that causes Lyme disease, others look for new ways to reduce the threat to a given populace. In this new effort, the researchers have developed a vaccine that can be given to a host animal that prevents ticks from spreading the disease.
