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. 2014 May 6;6(6):708–720. doi: 10.1002/emmm.201403876

Table 1.

Licensed vaccines are grouped into seven classes based on the method of production: live attenuated, killed whole organisms, toxoids/proteins, polysaccharides, glycoconjugates, recombinant, and personalized blood cell re-infusion

Method of production Licensed vaccines
Live attenuated Smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis (BCG), yellow fever, polio (OPV), measles, mumps, rubella, typhoid, varicella, rotavirus, influenza (cold adapted), zoster

Killed whole organism Typhoid, cholera, plague, pertussis, influenza, typhus, polio (IPV), rabies, Japanese encephalitis, tick-born encephalitis, hepatitis A

Toxoid/protein Diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, anthrax, influenza subunit

Polysaccharide Pneumococcus, meningococcus, Haemophilus influenzae B, typhoid (Vi)

Glycoconjugate Haemophilus influenzae B; pneumococcus (7, 10, and 13 valent), meningococcus C, meningococcus ACWY

Recombinant Hepatitis B, cholera toxin B, human papillomavirus; meningococcus B; hepatitis E

Blood cell infusion Prostate cancer