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. 2021 Feb 19;9(2):174. doi: 10.3390/vaccines9020174

Table 3.

Strengths and weaknesses of different vaccine types in memory response in addition to B cell-related memory.

Vaccine Type Strength in Memory Response Weakness in Memory Response
Attenuated
  • Multiple antigens

  • CTL response

  • Optimal helper T cell response,

  • Parallel PRR activations

Inactivated
  • Multiple antigens

  • Adjuvant determined helper T cell response

  • Parallel PRR activations

  • Lack of CTL response

  • Possibility of nonoptimal TH response

  • May induce weaker response, may need booster

Subunit
  • Adjuvant determined helper T cell response

  • Lack of CTL response

  • Adjuvant dependent

  • Possibility of nonoptimal TH response

  • Possibility of antigen sin

  • May induce weaker response, may need booster

Conjugated
  • Adjuvant determined helper T cell response

  • Lack of CTL response

  • Adjuvant dependent

  • Possibility of nonoptimal TH response

  • Possibility of antigen sin

  • May induce weaker response, may need booster

Toxoid
  • Lack of CTL response (irrelevant)

  • Adjuvant dependent

  • Possibility of nonoptimal TH response (irrelevant)

  • May induce weaker response, may need booster

VLP
  • CTL response

  • Optimal helper T cell response

  • Parallel PRR activations

  • Possibility of antigen sin

  • The carrier-specific reaction may result in a weaker reaction

RNA
  • CTL response

  • Helper T cell response

  • PRR activations

  • Possibility of antigen sin

  • May induce weaker response, may need booster

DNA
  • CTL response

  • Helper T cell response

  • Possibility of antigen sin

  • May induce weaker response, may need booster