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antibodies against a protein in the saliva of a pathogen's transmitting agent
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has been shown to confer immunity when administered protectively as a vaccine.
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Lyme bacterium known as
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Borrelia burgdorferi
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. When it moves through the tick, it is coated with a tick salivary protein known as Salp15
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injected Salp15 into healthy mice and found that it significantly protected them from getting Lyme disease
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combined with outer surface proteins of B. burgdorferi, the protection was even greater.
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Lyme vaccine on the market that utilized just the outer surface proteins of the bacteria. It was taken off the market in 2002
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targeting the saliva -- the "vector molecule" that a microbe requires to infect a host -- may be applicable not just to Lyme disease but to other insect-borne pathogens
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