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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2013

Vaccination against Lyme disease: past, present, and future.

Monica E Embers, Sukanya Narasimhan

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
41citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Why are the ticks winning, and what can we do about it?Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2026
    Review
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  5. Acquired tick resistance inInfection and immunity · 2025
    Article
  6. A Lyme disease mRNA vaccine targetingMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2025
    Article
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  9. Review
  10. Repeated Tick Infestations ImpairPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Article
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  14. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Monica E EmbersDivision of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA, USA. members@tulane.edu
Sukanya Narasimhan
Tulane University · USYale University · US

Funding

Tulane NPRC SPF Sheltered Outdoor Enclosure ExpansionP51OD011104 · OD · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI L Lee HAMM · 2012 to 2026
$142.4M
NIH HHS P51 OD011104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lyme borreliosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato bacteria transmitted to humans and domestic animals by the bite of an Ixodes spp. tick (deer tick). Despite improvements in diagnostic tests and public awareness of Lyme disease, the reported cases have increased over the past decade to approximately 30,000 per year. Limitations and failed public acceptance of a human vaccine, comprised of the outer surface A (OspA) lipoprotein of B. burgdorferi, led to its demise, yet current research has opened doors to new strategies for protection against Lyme disease. In this review we discuss the enzootic cycle of B. burgdorferi, and the unique opportunities it poses to block infection or transmission at different levels. We present the correlates of protection for this infectious disease, the pros and cons of past vaccination strategies, and new paradigms for future vaccine design that would include elements of both the vector and the pathogen.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, BacterialAntigens, BacterialAntigens, SurfaceArachnid VectorsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial VaccinesBorrelia burgdorferiDisease ReservoirsHumansIxodesLipoproteinsLyme DiseaseVaccinationAntibodies, BacterialAntigens, BacterialAntigens, SurfaceBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial VaccinesLipoproteinsOspA proteinBorrelia burgdorferiIxodes scapularisLyme diseasereservoirtickvaccinevector

Identifiers

PMID23407755
PMCPMC3569838
OpenAlexW2001821669

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Registered trials

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