New Insights Into an Old Vaccine: Potency and Breadth of Neutralizing Antibodies Elicited by Yellow Fever Vaccine 17D Are Boosted by Heterologous Orthoflavivirus Infection.

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BACKGROUND: Yellow fever vaccine 17D has controlled yellow fever for almost 90 years and is considered highly successful. However, with recent outbreaks in South America and Africa, yellow fever continues to represent a significant threat to public and global health. Despite the long-standing success, few studies have characterized the capacity of 17D-immune sera to neutralize wild type (WT) yellow fever viruses...

Topics

• Antibodies, Neutralizing
• Humans
• Yellow Fever Vaccine
• Antibodies, Viral
• Yellow fever virus