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Attenuation of Live-Attenuated Yellow Fever 17D Vaccine Virus Is Localized to a High-Fidelity Replication Complex.
mBio - 22 Oct 2019
Davis Emily H, Beck Andrew S, Strother Ashley E, Thompson Jill K, Widen Steven G, Higgs Stephen, Wood Thomas G, Barrett Alan D T
Abstract excerpt
The molecular basis of attenuation for live-attenuated vaccines is poorly understood. The yellow fever (YF) 17D vaccine virus was derived from the wild-type, parental strain Asibi virus by serial passage in chicken tissue and has proven to be a very safe and efficacious vaccine. We have previously shown that wild-type Asibi is a typical RNA virus with high genetic diversity, while the 17D vaccine virus has very...
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