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Using a strategy modeled after the LYMERix vaccine, which was pulled from the market in 2002 after four years of sales for allegedly causing damaging side effects, Gomes-Solecki and her team developed an oral solution with a different target: the white-footed mice.
First Lyme Vaccine Withdrawn After Injury Claims. This is not the first time a company has pursued a Lyme disease vaccine candidate, although there are no vaccines currently on the market. In 1998, the FDA approved LYMErix, manufactured by SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) of the United Kingdom. Patients received three doses of the vaccine, which was manufactured using a recombinant Burellia burgdorferi outer surface protein (OspPA).