Table 1. Overview of the most important travel vaccinations.

Vaccination	Minimum age	Standard vaccination schedule or basic immunization (BI), route of administration	Immunity starting from
Hepatitis A	1–18 years, depending on the vaccine	1 × i.m.	> 2 weeks after BI
Hepatitis B	From birth	0–1–6 months i. m.	> 4 weeks after BI
Hepatitis A + B	1–16 years, depending on the vaccine	0–1–6 months i. m.	> 2 or 4 weeks after BI
TBE	1–16 years, depending on the vaccine	0–14 days to 9 months (after 2nd vaccine) i. m.	2 weeks after 2nd vaccination for the current season
		0–1–5 months (after 2nd vaccine) i. m.
Meningococcal serogroups A, C, W135, Y	6 weeks to 2 years, depending on the vaccine	1 × i.m.	> 1 week after BI
Meningococcal serogroup B	2 months or 10 years,depending on the vaccine	0–1 months i.m. or 0–6 months i. m.	Immediately after BI (2nd vaccination)
Rabies	From birth	0–7–21 (28) days i.m.,rapid schedule *1 : 0–3–7 days i. m.	2–4 weeks after BI
Polio	2 months	0–1–2 months i.m.	Immediately after BI (3rd dose)
Yellow fever	9 months	1 × s.c. preferred, see product information for i.m. injection	10 days after BI (consider for entry date)
Japanese encephalitis (JE)	2 months	0–28 days i.m., children < 3 years receive half-doses, rapid schedule*2: 0–7 days i. m.	4 weeks after BI
Typhoid fever	2 years (injectable vaccine)	1 × i.m.	14 days after BI
	5 years (oral vaccination)	0–2–4 days, orally; there should be a minimum interval of 3 days between the 3rd vaccination dose and start of malaria prophylaxis	> 10 days after BI
Typhus + hepatitis A	16 years	1 × i.m.	> 2 weeks after BI
Cholera	2–7 years, depending on the vaccine	1 x or 0–7(–14) days orally, maximum of 6-week interval between doses, otherwise new vaccination	7–10 days after BI, for at least 6 months

Overview of the vaccines most frequently used in Germany for travel medicine. The product information of the respective vaccines should be assessed prior to vaccination. A detailed and continuously updated summary, including rapid vaccination schedules and information on boosters, can be found in tabular form on the website of the authors’ institution (www.uniklinikum-leipzig.de/einrichtungen/medizinische-klinik-2/infektions-und-tropenmedizin); for further details see (22).

*¹ Only for adults aged 18–65 years (if the conventional pre-exposure prophylaxis schedule cannot be completed before the required vaccine protection within 21 or 28 days)

*² Only for adults aged 18–65 years (if the conventional schedule cannot be completed before the required vaccine protection within 28 days)

i.m., intramuscular; s.c., subcutaneous