Lyme Disease
Vaccine Proven To Work in Clinical Trial
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 29th, 1997
"The vaccine works and the vaccine is safe," Leonard Sigal, a researcher at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, said of the vaccine, developed by a subsidiary of the Rhone-Poulenc Group.
The subsidiary, Pasteur Merieux Connaught, said preliminary results showed that the vaccine reduced the occurrence of Lyme disease in a clinical trial involving 10,306 adults.
John Zahradnik, Pasteur Merieux Connaught, said the promising results of the trial had led the company to prepare to submit a product license application to the...
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