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. 2021 Jul 9;8(8):ofab367. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab367

Table 1.

Characteristics of Live Attenuated Vaccines

Cost [35] Repeat administration [36] Induction of innate immunity [21, 37] Mucosal immunogenicity Rare complication Adverse events Contraindication Culture [38] Combination vaccines in USA [36] Route [36] US tradename Criteria
$21 per dose Experienced but not performed in USA [39] All live attenuated vaccines cause induction of the innate immune system as a first step to create immunity With the intranasal measles vaccine [40] Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (0.7/million) [41] Serum sickness like arthralgias; febrile seizures [41] Allergy to neomycin, gelatin, immunocompro-mised, pregnancy [41] Chicken embryo fibroblast Mumps, measles, rubella with varicella Subcutaneous M-M-R II MMR
$0.15 per dose Yes Yes [21] VAPP (1/million) only with OPV2; cVDPV also rare VAPP, fever, vomiting, diarrhea [42] Allergy to vaccine component; in pregnancy, it should be used with caution [42] Monkey kidney cells bOPV (OPV1 and OPV3; not in use in USA) Oral Substituted by Ipol (IPV) in USA OPV
$2–3 per dose worldwide; intravesicular use around $160 in USA [43] Experienced but not performed in USA [44] Yes [45] BCG osteitis [46] Disseminated disease in immunosuppressed [46] Immunosuppression, allergy to component of vaccine, active tuberculosis [46] Surface pellicle on synthetic medium [47] Not administered as a combination vaccine in USA Percutaneous, intravesicular BCG vaccine, TICE BCG
$18.88 per dose Yes Yes [21] Guillain-Barré syndrome (controversial) [48] Flu-like syndrome, wheezing, nasal congestion [48] Immunosuppression, allergy to component of vaccine, pregnancy, CSF leak, concomitant aspirin, Reye’s syndrome [48] Egg based Not administered as a combination vaccine in USA Intranasal FluMist Influenza
$97.50 per dose, $71.88 per dose (pentavalent) Yes Yes [21] Intussusception [49] Cough, runny nose, fever, vomiting [49] History of uncorrected congenital gastrointestinal malformation, intussusception, hypersensitivity to component of vaccine, severe combined immunodeficiency disease [49] Virus from calf and human mixed Not administered as a combination vaccine in USA Oral Rotarix, RotaTeq Rotavirus
$212–$240 per dose Limited evidence [50] Experienced [51] Transmission of virus, anaphylaxis [52] Headache and injection site reactions [52] History of anaphylactic reaction to component of the vaccine, immune suppression [52] Use human cell strains Not administered as a combination vaccine in USA Subcutaneous Zostavax (discontinued in USA) Shingles
$109.26 per dose Yes No sufficient data Reye syndrome in children following use of salicylates [53] Fever, injection site reactions, rash [53] History of severe allergic reaction to any component of the vaccine, immunosuppre-ssion, moderate or severe febrile illness, active untreated tuberculosis, pregnancy [53] Use human cell strains Mumps, measles, rubella with varicella Subcutaneous Varivax Varicella

Abbreviations: BCG, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; cVDPV, circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus; IPV, inactivated polio vaccine; MMR, measles, mumps, rubella; OPV, oral polio vaccine; VAPP, vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis.