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Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate Tested in Sweden

In Travel Vaccine News by Travel Vaccine

A Professor of applied health technology at Blekinge Institute of Technology recently confirmed a Lyme disease vaccine candidate is being tested in Sweden.
Johan Sanmartin Berglund leads the Swedish part of phase 3 clinical study evaluating VLA15, a multivalent recombinant protein vaccine candidate targeting the outer surface protein A of Borrelia.
This innovative vaccine is designed for prophylactic, active immunization to protect people against most human pathogenic Borrelia species.