As there is no cross-protection between the four dengue serotypes, and because of the possibility of immune enhancement by monotypic antibody leading to DHF with subsequent natural infections, the control of dengue will be possible only after an efficient tetravalent vaccine has been developed. This means a vaccine that protects against all four dengue serotypes. The most favored strategy is to develop a live vaccine. Attenuation was obtained by repeated passage of wild-type strains of dengue viruses in cell culture. The difficulty in this approach has been to find the correct balance between insufficient attenuation and over-attenuation of the candidate vaccine strains, as criteria of virus attenuation in vitro, such as small plaque phenotype and temperature-sensitive growth, do not appear to be predictive of attenuation in vivo. In addition, whereas monovalent attenuated vaccine lots showed good immunogenicity, their combination into a tetravalent vaccine initially generated disappointing immunogenicity results, due to a phenomenon of interference between strains.