Table 2.

Japanese encephalitis vaccines licensed for use in Korea

Type of vaccine	Manufacturer	Trade name	Virus strain	Substrate	Immunization schedule
JE-MBa)	Greencross	Greencross Japanese encephalitis vaccine	Nakayama	Mouse brain	Days 0, 7–30 at 12–23 months of age; booster after 1 year, then 6, 12 years of age
	Boryung Biopharma	Boryung Japanese encephalitis vaccine
		Boryung Japanese encephalitis vaccine PFS
JE-VC	Boryung Biopharma	Boryung cell-culture Japanese encephalitis vaccine	Beijing-1	Vero cells
		Greencross cell-culture Japanese encephalitis vaccine
LJEV	Glovax	CD.JEVAX	SA-14-14-2	PHK cells	1st dose at 12–23 months of age; 2nd dose 12 months after 1st dose
JE-CV	Sanofi Pasteur	IMOJEV	SA14-14-2/yellow fever 17D	Vero cells

JE-CV, recombinant chimeric virus vaccine; JE-MB, inactivated Japanese encephalitis vaccine; JE-VC, inactivated Vero cell-derived Japanese encephalitis vaccine; LJEV, live-attenuated Japanese encephalitis vaccine; PHK, primary hamster kidney.

^a)JE-MB is not currently in use and has been replaced by JE-VC.

Adapted from the Korean Pediatric Society. Japanese encephalitis vaccines. In: Kim JH, editor. Immunization guideline. 9th ed. [16]