Important Vaccines and Inventors

Bacterial Diseases

Diseases	Bacteria/Virus	Vaccines	Inventor
Cholera	Vibrio Cholerae	1) Monovalent vaccine based on formalin 2) Bivalent vaccine based on V. cholerae serogroups O1	Louis Pasteur
Pneumococcal Pneumonia	Streptococcus pneumoniae	1) Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines 2) Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine	William Osler
Typhoid Fever	Salmonella typhi	1) Injectable polysaccharide vaccine based on the purified Vi antigen for persons aged two years and above 2) Live attenuated oral Ty21a vaccine in capsule formulation for those over five years of age	Almroth Edward Wright
Meningococcal meningitis	Neisseria meningitidis	1) Polysaccharide vaccines are available in bivalent (A, C), trivalent (A, C, W135), & quadrivalent (A, C, W135, Y) formulations 2) Conjugate vaccines are available in monovalent (A or C), quadrivalent (A, C, W135, Y), or combination (serogroup C and Haemophilus influenzae type b) formulations.	Vieusseux
Tuberculosis	Mycobacterium Tuberculosis	Bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG)	Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin
Epiglottitis, meningitis , pneumonia	Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib)	Hib Vaccine	David Smith
Q Fever	Coxiella burnetii	Q fever vaccine(doxycycline, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin & hydroxychloroquine)	H.R. Cox and Gordon Davis
Diphtheria	Corynebacterium diphtheriae	DTP vaccine or pentavalent vaccine	Behring
Tetanus	Clostridium tetani	tetanus-toxoid-containing vaccines (TTCV)	Emil von Behring
Whooping Cough	Bordetella pertussis	DPT Vaccine	Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou
Anthrax	Bacillius anthracis	Anthrax Vaccines	Louis Pasteur
Leprosy	Bacterium Mycobacterium leprae	Dapsone, rifampicin	Guy Henry Faget

Viral Diseases

Diseases	Bacteria/ Virus	Vaccines	Inventor
Hepatitis A	Hepatitis A	Hepatitis A vaccine (Such as Havrix, Avaxim etc.,)	Steven M. Feinstone
Hepatitis B	Hepatitis B	Hepatitis B Vaccine (such as Sci-B-vac, Pentabio.etc,)	Dr. Blumberg won
Hepatitis E	Hepatitis E	Hepatitis E Vaccine (such as Hecolin)	-
Cervical cancer, Genital warts, anogenital cancers	Human Papillomavirus (HPV)	Bivalent & Quadrivalent vaccine	Ian Frazer
Influenza	Influenza Virus	Influenza Vaccine (such as Flumist, Flubio etc.,)	Jonas Salk & Thomas Francis
Japanese encephalitis	Japanese encephalitis virus	1) Inactivated mouse brain-based vaccines 2) Inactivated cell-based vaccines 3) Live attenuated vaccines & 4) Live recombinant vaccines.	-
Measles	Measles virus	measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) Vaccine, measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) Vaccine	Maurice Hilleman
Mumps	Mumps Virus	measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) Vaccine, measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) Vaccine	Maurice Hilleman
Poliomyelitis	Polio virus	1) Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) 2) Trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) 3) Bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) 4) Monovalent oral polio vaccines (mOPV1, mOPV2 and mOPV3)	Dr. Jonas Salk
Rabies	Rabies Virus	Human diploid cell rabies vaccine (H.D.C.V.)	Louis Pasteur & Emile Roux
Rota viral gastroenteritis	Rotavirus	Rotavirus Vaccine (RotaTeq, Rotarix)	Paul A. Offit
Rubella	Rubella virus	measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) Vaccine, measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) Vaccine	Maurice Hilleman
Tick-borne encephalitis	Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV)	1) FSME-Immun 2) Encepur 3) TBE-Moscow & 4) EnceVir	-
Chicken pox, Shingles	Varicella zoster virus	1) Varicella vaccine 2) Shingles vaccine 3) MMRV vaccine	Michiaki Takahashi
Small pox	Variola Virus	Smallpox Vaccine (Dryvax, Imvanex)	Edward Jenner
Yellow Fever	Yellow Fever Virus	Yellow Fever Vaccine (YF-VAX)	Max Theiler