COVID-19 vaccine types available for current preclinical/clinical application and their manufactures
No. | Vaccine types | Mechanism of vaccine development | Manufacturer |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Inactivated | SARS-CoV-2 grown in cell culture | Sinopharm + China National Biotec Group, Co + Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, COVAXIN (Bharat Biotech International Limited) |
Chemical inactivation of the virus | |||
Combined with alum or another adjuvant | |||
2 | Live attenuated | Genetically weakened SARS-CoV-2 | - |
SARS-CoV-2 grown in adverse conditions | |||
Virulence is lost with maintained immunogenicity | |||
3 | Recombinant virus vector | Viral proteins (RBP, S protein) expressed on mammalian cells, yeasts, or plants | NVX-CoV2373 (Novavax) |
4 | Virus vector | Genetically engineered vaccines | - |
Use vectors uncommon to cause human infections, e.g., chimpanzee adenovirus | |||
4.1 | Replication incompetent vector | Engineered, to not replicate in vivo and express the viral protein | Ad26.COV2.S (Janssen/Johnson & Johnson) |
ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/AZD1222 (AstraZeneca/ | |||
University of Oxford/Serum Institute of India) | |||
Gam-COVID-Vac (Sputnik V) (Gamaleya Institute) | |||
4.2 | Replication competent vector | Engineered to express the spike protein and replicate within the vaccinated individual | - |
5 | Nucleic acid vaccines | Exogenous nucleic acid is detected by innate immune receptors which generate robust immune response | - |
DNA | Plasmid DNA with mammalian expression promotors and the target gene | Zydus Cadila (ZyCoV-D) [102] |
RBP: receptor binding protein; -: not applicable/not available
MG and MM: conception, drafting, organizing, revision, and final approval of the manuscript; SG, VS and IPS: drafting, organizing, revision, and final approval of the manuscript; HB: illustrations, drafting, revision, and final approval of the manuscript; YK: drafting, organizing, revision, and final approval of the manuscript.
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
© The Author(s) 2021.