Safety and immunogenicity of a novel multivalent OspA-based vaccine candidate against Lyme borreliosis: a randomised, phase 1 study in healthy adults

N Bézay, R Hochreiter, V Kadlecek… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Lyme borreliosis, potentially associated with serious long-term complications, is
caused by the species complex Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. We investigated a novel …

Safety and immunogenicity of a novel multivalent OspA vaccine against Lyme borreliosis in healthy adults: a double-blind, randomised, dose-escalation phase 1/2 trial

N Wressnigg, EM Pöllabauer, G Aichinger… - The Lancet infectious …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background Lyme borreliosis is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in the USA and
by several Borrelia species in Europe and Asia, but no human vaccine is available. We …

A novel multivalent OspA vaccine against Lyme borreliosis is safe and immunogenic in an adult population previously infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

N Wressnigg, PN Barrett, EM Pöllabauer… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Lyme borreliosis (LB) patients who recover, as well as previously infected asymptomatic
individuals, remain vulnerable to reinfection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. There is …

The novel Lyme borreliosis vaccine VLA15 shows broad protection against Borrelia species expressing six different OspA serotypes

P Comstedt, W Schüler, A Meinke, U Lundberg - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
We have previously shown that the Outer surface protein A (OspA) based Lyme borreliosis
vaccine VLA15 induces protective immunity in mice. Herein, we report the induction of …

Design and development of a novel vaccine for protection against Lyme borreliosis

P Comstedt, M Hanner, W Schüler, A Meinke… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
There is currently no Lyme borreliosis vaccine available for humans, although it has been
shown that the disease can be prevented by immunization with an OspA-based vaccine …

Broadly protective multivalent OspA vaccine against Lyme borreliosis, developed based on surface shaping of the C-terminal fragment

A Nayak, W Schüler, S Seidel, I Gomez… - Infection and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The development of vaccines for prevention of diseases caused by pathogenic species can
encounter major obstacles if high sequence diversity is observed between individual strains …

A Vaccine Consisting of Recombinant Borrelia burgdorferi Outer-Surface Protein A to Prevent Lyme Disease

LH Sigal, JM Zahradnik, P Lavin… - … England Journal of …, 1998 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Lyme disease is a multisystem inflammatory disease caused by infection with
the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and is the most common vector-borne infection …

Lyme borreliosis

UR Hengge, A Tannapfel, SK Tyring… - The Lancet infectious …, 2003 - thelancet.com
Lyme borreliosis is a multi-organ infection caused by spirochetes of the Borrelia burgdorferi
sensu lato group with its species B burgdorferi sensu stricto, Borrelia garinii, and Borrelia …

The year that shaped the outcome of the OspA vaccine for human Lyme disease

RJ Dattwyler, M Gomes-Solecki - Npj Vaccines, 2022 - nature.com
The expansion of Lyme borreliosis endemic areas and the corresponding increase of
disease incidence have opened the possibility for greater acceptance of a vaccine. In this …

Multicomponent Lyme vaccine: three is not a crowd

EL Brown, JH Kim, ES Reisenbichler, M Höök - Vaccine, 2005 - Elsevier
Lyme disease is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and it is the most common
vector-borne disease in the United States. Disseminated spirochetes can persist in various …