Relapsing fever future or investigational therapies

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• Currently, no vaccine against relapsing fever is available, but research continues.

Future or investigational therapies

Currently, no vaccine against relapsing fever is available, but research continues. Developing a vaccine is very difficult because the spirochetes avoid the immune response of the infected person (or animal) through antigenic variation (changing its surface proteins).