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ArticleScientific reports2018

Analysis By Deep Sequencing of Discontinued Neurotropic Yellow Fever Vaccine Strains.

Andrew S Beck, Thomas G Wood, Steven G Widen, Jill K Thompson, Alan D T Barrett

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Andrew S BeckDepartment of Pathology, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.
Thomas G WoodMolecular Genomics Core Facility, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.
Steven G WidenMolecular Genomics Core Facility, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.
Jill K ThompsonMolecular Genomics Core Facility, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.
Alan D T BarrettDepartment of Pathology, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA. abarrett@utmb.edu.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · USGalveston College · USJohn Sealy Hospital · US

Funding

Biodefense Training ProgramT32AI060549 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI ASHOK K CHOPRA, Janice J Endsley · 2004 to 2026
$3.0M
Next Generation sequencing of yellow fever 17D vaccine virusR21AI113407 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI BARRETT, ALAN D.T. · 2015 to 2016
$426k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI113407NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI060549
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deep sequencing of live-attenuated viral vaccines has focused on vaccines in current use. Here we report characterization of a discontinued live yellow fever (YF) vaccine associated with severe adverse events. The French neurotropic vaccine (FNV) strain of YF virus was derived empirically in 1930 by 260 passages of wild-type French viscerotropic virus (FVV) in mouse brain. The vaccine was administered extensively in French-speaking Africa until discontinuation in 1982, due to high rates of post-vaccination encephalitis in children. Using rare archive strains of FNV, viral RNAs were sequenced and analyzed by massively parallel, in silico methods. Diversity and specific population structures were compared in reference to the wild-type parental strain FVV, and between the vaccine strains themselves. Lower abundance of polymorphism content was observed for FNV strains relative to FVV. Although the vaccines were of lower diversity than FVV, heterogeneity between the vaccines was observed. Reversion to wild-type identity was variably observed in the FNV strains. Specific population structures were recovered from vaccines with neurotropic properties; loss of neurotropism in mice was associated with abundance of wild-type RNA populations. The analysis provides novel sequence evidence that FNV is genetically unstable, and that adaptation of FNV contributed to the neurotropic adverse phenotype.

Indexed as

High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingPolymorphism, GeneticYellow FeverAfricaAnimalsChildChild, PreschoolEncephalomyelitis, Acute DisseminatedHumansMiceSequence Analysis, DNAViral TropismYellow Fever VaccineYellow fever virusYellow Fever Vaccine

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PMID30194325
PMCPMC6128858
OpenAlexW2891890995

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