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Is a dose of 17D vaccine in the current context of Yellow Fever enough?

Braz. j. microbiol; 49 (3), 2018

Development and characterization of a packaging cell line for pseudo-infectious yellow fever virus particle generation

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Pseudo-infectious yellow fever viral particles (YFV-PIVs) have been used to study vaccines and viral packaging. Here, we report the development of a packaging cell line, which expresses the YFV prM/E proteins. METHODS: HEK293 cells were transfected with YFV prM/E and C (84 nt) ...

Single shot of 17D vaccine may not confer life-long protection against yellow fever

Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz; 113 (2), 2018
The yellow fever (YF) vaccine has been used since the 1930s to prevent YF, which is a severe infectious disease caused by the yellow fever virus (YFV), and mainly transmitted by Culicidae mosquitoes from the genera Aedes and Haemagogus . Until 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the adm...