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A single-dose live-attenuated YF17D-vectored SARS-CoV2 vaccine candidate

Lorena Sanchez Felipe; Thomas Vercruysse; Sapna Sharma; Ji Ma; Viktor Lemmens; Dominique van Looveren; Mahadesh Prasad Arkalagud Javarappa; Robbert Boudewijns; Bert Malengier-Devlies; Suzanne F. Kaptein; Laurens Liesenborghs; Carolien De Keyzer; Lindsey Bervoets; Madina Rasulova; Laura Seldeslachts; Sander Jansen; Michael Bright Yakass; Osbourne Quaye; Li-Hsin Li; Xin Zhang; Sebastiaan ter Horst; Niraj Mishra; Lotte Coelmont; Christopher Cawthorne; Koen Van Laere; Ghislain Opdenakker; Greetje Van de Velde; Birgit Weynand; Dirk E. Teuwen; Patrick Matthys; Johan Neyts; Hendrik Jan Thibaut; Kai D

2020-07-09 microbiology
10.1101/2020.07.08.193045 bioRxiv
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The explosively expanding COVID-19 pandemic urges the development of safe, efficacious and fast-acting vaccines to quench the unrestrained spread of SARS-CoV-2. Several promising vaccine platforms, developed in recent years, are leveraged for a rapid emergency response to COVID-191. We employed the live-attenuated yellow fever 17D (YF17D) vaccine as a vector to express the prefusion form of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike antigen. In mice, the vaccine candidate, tentatively named YF-S0, induces high levels of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies and a favorable Th1 cell-mediated immune response. In a stringent hamster SARS-CoV-2 challenge model2, vaccine candidate YF-S0 prevents infection with SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, a single dose confers protection from lung disease in most vaccinated animals even within 10 days. These results warrant further development of YF-S0 as a potent SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate.

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