PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Susan Kuhn
AU  - Loreto Twele-Montecinos
AU  - Judy MacDonald
AU  - Patricia Webster
AU  - Barbara Law
TI  - Case report: probable transmission of vaccine strain of yellow fever virus to an infant via breast milk
AID  - 10.1503/cmaj.100619
DP  - 2011 Mar 08
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - E243--E245
VI  - 183
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/183/4/E243.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/183/4/E243.full
SO  - CMAJ2011 Mar 08; 183
AB  - The 17D yellow fever vaccine is a live-virus vaccine that has been in use since the 1940s. The incidence of encephalitis after yellow fever vaccination among young infants is much higher than among children older than nine months of age. Until recently, avoidance of vaccination by breastfeeding women who have received yellow fever vaccine had been based on theoretical grounds only. We report the probable transmission of vaccine strain of yellow fever virus from a mother to her infant through breastfeeding.