Medical pg online test series Q-8

The vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis is?

  1. Live (mutant) vaccine
  2. Killed vaccine
  3. Live (attenuated) vaccine
  4. Live (recombinant) vaccine

The vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis is a killed vaccine.
The virus is grown in mouse brain and is inactivated by formalin.
Influenza vaccine can be of various types – Live (mutant), Live (attenuated) and Live (recombinant) forms.
Ref: Ananthanarayan and Paniker’s Textbook of Microbiology, 9th edition, p452.