Abstract
Flaviviruses are antigenically related. We evaluated the immunogenicity and efficacy of Takeda's purified inactivated Zika vaccine (PIZV) candidate in macaques previously vaccinated with several commercially available heterologous flavivirus vaccines. Heterologous flavivirus vaccination did not elicit Zika virus (ZIKV) neutralizing antibodies and did not impact neutralizing antibody titers after one dose of PIZV. After a second PIZV dose previous vaccination with flavivirus vaccines had variable impact on ZIKV neutralizing antibody titers. However, all macaques were protected against viremia after Zika virus challenge 8-12months post-PIZV vaccination. Therefore, vaccine-induced immunity against heterologous flavivirus vaccines does not impact PIZV efficacy in macaques.
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