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Need for a New Lyme Disease Vaccine

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  • Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D.

Despite the development of two vaccines against Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, there is no such vaccine currently on the market. But the problem of Lyme disease is large and growing. Fortunately, the future seems reasonably bright for new vaccines.

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Author Affiliations

From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and Vaxconsult, Doylestown — both in Pennsylvania.

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