New Discovery Identifies “Don’t Eat Me” Protein that Allows Lyme Bacteria to Evade Body’s Immune Response
The research was conducted at Stanford University and University of California San Francisco and funded in part by Bay Area Lyme Foundation.
- The research was conducted at Stanford University and University of California San Francisco and funded in part by Bay Area Lyme Foundation.
- This groundbreaking data posted on bioRxiv on April 30, 2024, is expected to be published in a peer-review journal in the future.
- “One of the big mysteries of Lyme disease has been how Borrelia is able to evade and survive the immune system – and this study helps answer that question.
- “Patients need both a robust immune response and antibiotics to eradicate an infection - antibiotics alone are not usually sufficient.