Immunogenicity, safety and tolerance of a purified duck embryo vaccine (PDEV, VAXIRAB) for rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: Results of a multicentric study in India.

Rabies continues to be a major public health problem in India. Nearly 17 million people are getting exposed to this disease every year. Therefore the need for effective post-exposure prophylaxis with safe and potent modern rabies vaccines continues to exist.

Immunogenicity and safety study of Indirab: a Vero cell based chromatographically purified human rabies vaccine.

A chromatographically purified Vero cell rabies vaccine, Indirab manufactured by Bharat Biotech International Limited, Hyderabad, India was subjected to safety and immunogenicity studies by both intramuscular and intradermal routes of administration in parallel with a reference vaccine, Verorab. A Pre-exposure study was undertaken in 239 subjects by intramuscular (IM) route (Study I), Post-exposure study in 188 patients by intramuscular route (Study II) and Simulated post-exposure study in 134 subjects by intradermal (ID) route (Study III). All subjects in these studies were administered with either the test or the reference vaccine as per WHO approved intramuscular and intradermal regimens.

A comparative study on the immunogenicity, safety and tolerance of purified duck embryo vaccine (PDEV) manufactured in India (Vaxirab) and Switzerland (Lyssavac-N): a randomized simulated post-exposure study in healthy volunteers.

Purified duck embryo vaccine (PDEV, Vaxirab) for rabies prophylaxis is now indigenously manufactured in India under technology transfer from Berna Biotech who made the original PDEV (Lyssavac). In the present study we have compared the two vaccines in terms of safety, immunogenicity and tolerance. The study was conducted in 220 adult healthy volunteers.