Live Attenuated Vaccine | Killed (Inactivated) Vaccine |
Mnemonic: I love small chick EMBRYO – Influenza (Live): via nasal route – Small pox (Variola) – Chicken pox (Varicella) vaccine: Oka strain – JE (Live): SA-14-14-2 strain – Measles / MR – BCG – Rotavirus vaccine (RVV) – Yellow fever vaccine – OPV (Sabin) | Mnemonic: KILLED – Kyasanur forest disease (KFD) – Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) – Influenza (Killed) – JE (Killed, Kolar strain, JANVAC) – Dog: Rabies vaccine |
Note- In above mention Live vaccines “BCG vaccines” is for ‘bacteria’ & remain live vaccines is for virus.
Live attenuated vaccine | Strain |
Measles’s (s/c) | Edmonston-Zagreb strain |
Rubella (s/c) | Wistar RA 27/3 strain |


