Clinical Trial: The Uninfected Ixodes Scapularis Human Tick Challenge Model
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Tick Bites
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: The Uninfected Ixodes Scapularis Human Tick Challenge Model
Brief Summary:
An innovative way to prevent multiple tick-borne diseases is an anti-tick vaccine, i.e. targeting the vector to prevent transmission of pathogens from the tick to the host.The rationale for an anti-tick vaccine stems from a phenomenon coined tick immunity.This study aims to show proof of concept that humans indeed develop immunity to ticks.Therefore subjects will be challenged three to four times with ticks reared in colony from a designated laboratory and that are exhaustively tested negative for various known…
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