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. 2019 Jul 19;68(2):1–33. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.rr6802a1

TABLE 2. Seroprotection rates and geometric mean titers for inactivated Vero cell culture–derived Japanese encephalitis vaccine administered to adults aged 18–65 years in an accelerated schedule with rabies vaccine or standard schedule with and without rabies vaccine*.

Measure and time after second JE-VC dose Primary series schedule
JE-VC, 0 and 7 days with rabies vaccine
JE-VC, 0 and 28 days with rabies vaccine§
JE-VC, 0 and 28 days alone
Seroprotection rate
Total
No. seroprotected
(%)
Total
No. seroprotected
(%)
Total
No. seroprotected
(%)
28 days
206
203
99
157
157
100
49
49
100
>300 days**
199
188
94
154
132
86
48
42
88
GMT††
GMT (95% CI)
GMT (95% CI)
GMT (95% CI)
28 days
690 (595‒801)
299 (254‒352)
337 (252‒451)
>300 days** 117 (100‒137)
39 (33‒47)
39 (28‒54)

Sources: Food and Drug Administration. Ixiaro: Japanese encephalitis vaccine, inactivated, adsorbed [package insert]. Vienna, Austria: Valneva Austria GmbH; 2018. https://www.fda.gov/media/75777/download; Jelinek T, Burchard GD, Dieckmann S, et al. Short-term immunogenicity and safety of an accelerated pre-exposure prophylaxis regimen with Japanese encephalitis vaccine in combination with a rabies vaccine: A phase III, multicenter, observer-blind study. J Travel Med 2015;22:225–31; Cramer JP, Jelinek T, Paulke-Korinek M, et al. One-year immunogenicity kinetics and safety of a purified chick embryo cell rabies vaccine and an inactivated Vero cell-derived Japanese encephalitis vaccine administered concomitantly according to a new, 1-week, accelerated primary series. J Travel Med 2016;23:1–8.

Abbreviations: CI = confidence interval; GMT = geometric mean titer; JE-VC = Vero cell culture–derived Japanese encephalitis vaccine; PCEC = purified chick embryo cell.

* Per-protocol analysis.

PCEC rabies vaccine administered in a 0-, 3-, 7-day schedule.

§ PCEC rabies vaccine administered in a 0-, 7-, 28-day schedule.

Proportion with 50% plaque reduction neutralization test titer ≥10.

** Study ended on day 365.

†† PRNT titers <10 were imputed to 5.