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NPJ VACCINES
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41541-019-0133-5
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- Austrian Science Fund FWF [P25265-B21, P27501-B21, P29928-B30]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PP0033-110737]
- Promedica Foundation (Chur, Switzerland)
- Baxter Healthcare Inc. (Austria)
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P25265, P29928, P27501] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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Flaviviruses have an increasing global impact as arthropod-transmitted human pathogens, exemplified by Zika, dengue, yellow fever (YF), West Nile, Japanese encephalitis, and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) viruses. Since all flaviviruses are antigenically related, they are prone to phenomena of immunological memory ('original antigenic sin'), which can modulate immune responses in the course of sequential infections and/or vaccinations. In our study, we analyzed the influence of pre-existing YF vaccine-derived immunity on the antibody response to TBE vaccination. By comparing samples from YF pre-vaccinated and flavivirus-naive individuals, we show that YF immunity not only caused a significant impairment of the neutralizing antibody response to TBE vaccination but also a reduction of the specific TBE virus neutralizing activities (NT/ELISA-titer ratios). Our results point to a possible negative effect of pre-existing cross-reactive immunity on the outcome of flavivirus vaccination that may also pertain to other combinations of sequential flavivirus infections and/or vaccinations.
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