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Yellow fever 17D vaccine virus isolated from healthy vaccinees accumulates very few mutations.
Virus research - 1 May 1998
Xie H, Cass A R, Barrett A D
Abstract excerpt
The live attenuated yellow fever (YF) vaccine strain 17D is one of the safest vaccines in use today with only 22 cases of reversion to virulence documented from over 300 million doses administered. We have isolated virus in cell culture from sera of six volunteers who received 17D vaccine and found that very few nucleotide mutations were detected in the consensus sequence of the entire genome of each of the serum...
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