Table 4.

Infection status of SGH- and peptide-vaccinated HLA DR3 tg mice post Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) challenge. qPCR results are expressed as mean ± SD copies of Bb recA genes normalized to 20,000 Mn nido genes. Figures in parentheses are minimum and maximum values. Statistical significance (P < 0.05) when compared to control vaccinated HLA DR3 tg mice copy number denoted by *

Vaccination Arm	Number infected / total challenged	qPCR detection of Bb
Control	3/4	55.9 ± 68.4 (0.0–176.9)
SGH	3/4	3.9 ± 4.7 * (0.0–11.1)
Peptide Pool (NPP)	4/4	22.1 ± 30.9 (0.0–72.8)
Liposomal Peptides (LPP)	4/4	34.4 ± 23.1 (0.0–63.3)