About the Authors

Christiane Costa-Pereira

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ana Carolina Campi-Azevedo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

accampi@cpqrr.fiocruz.br (ACCA); oassismartins@gmail.com (OAMF)

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Jordana Grazziela Coelho-dos-Reis

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Márcio Sobreira Silva Araújo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Lis Ribeiro do Vale Antonelli

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Cristina Toscano Fonseca

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Jandira Aparecida Lemos

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Secretaria de Estado de Saúde, Governo do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Luiz Cosme Cote Malaquias

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Matheus de Souza Gomes

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioinformática e Análises Moleculares, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Laurence Rodrigues Amaral

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioinformática e Análises Moleculares, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Maria Rios

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research – CBER – Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Caren Chancey

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research – CBER – Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Harold Richard Persi

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Instituto de Biologia do Exército, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jorge Marcelo Pereira

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Instituto de Biologia do Exército, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maria de Lourdes de Sousa Maia

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiológicos Bio-Manguinhos- FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marcos da Silva Freire

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiológicos Bio-Manguinhos- FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Reinaldo de Menezes Martins

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiológicos Bio-Manguinhos- FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Akira Homma

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiológicos Bio-Manguinhos- FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marisol Simões

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiológicos Bio-Manguinhos- FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Anna Yoshida Yamamura

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiológicos Bio-Manguinhos- FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Roberto Henrique Guedes Farias

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiológicos Bio-Manguinhos- FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alessandro Pecego Martins Romano

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Carla Magda Domingues

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Pedro Luiz Tauil

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Pedro Fernando Costa Vasconcelos

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Instituto Evandro Chagas– IEC, Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil

Iramaya Rodrigues Caldas

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Diretoria Regional de Brasília – DIREB, FIOCRUZ, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

Luiz Antônio Camacho

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Andrea Teixeira-Carvalho

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Olindo Assis Martins-Filho

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

accampi@cpqrr.fiocruz.br (ACCA); oassismartins@gmail.com (OAMF)

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

Seven participants of this study (MS, MSF, AMYY, AH, RMM, RHGF, MLSM) are employees at the 17DD-YF vaccine manufacturer (Bio-Manguinhos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), and nine participants work in other units of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (ACCA, MSSA, VPM, LRVA, CTF, LABC, IRC, ATC and OAMF). Bias from competing interest was prevented by: (1) one collaboration with a general clinical Physician (HRP) from Brazilian Army, expert in infectious disease; (2) one general clinical Nurse (JACL) expert in vaccine epidemiological vigilance from State Health Department; (3) three Immunologists (LCCM) from Brazilian Research Academy and (MR and CC) from United States Department of Health; and (5) two independent professionals working as PhD student (CCP) or Post-Doc Researchers (JGCR) in the field of infectious diseases. (6) two authors (MSG and LRA) from the Universidade Federal de Alfenas contributed to bioinformatics analysis (decision tree algorithm). The FIOCRUZ extramural coworkers contributed with critical overview of the studystrategy, immunization of volunteers as well as medical care, blood sample collection, blind sample handling and processing, data collection, statistical analysis and data interpretation. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors and do not represent the official position of the US FDA.