TABLE 4.
Tracheal and cloacal shedding of virus after inoculation with three H9N2 viruses.
| Mean tracheal virus titers* and tracheal shedding (no. shedding/total) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inoculated (n=7) | Contact (n=3) | |||||
| Virus | 3 d.p.i. | 5 d.p.i. | 7 d.p.i. | 3 d.p.i | 5 d.p.i | 7 d.p.i. |
| A/ty/Israel/90710/2000 | 3.8 (1/7) | 2 (6/7) | 1.2 (2/7) | 2.5 (1/3) | 3.7 (2/3) | 5( 3/3) |
| A/ty/Israel/965/2002 | 4.5 (3/7) | 3 (7/7) | 2.7 (3/7) | 0 (0/3) | 0 (0/3) | 0 (0/3) |
| A/ty/Israel/1567/2004 | 5.6 (3/7) | 4.4 (7/7) | 3 (6/7) | 5.4 (3/3) | 5.3 (3/3) | 2.9 (3/3) |
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| Mean cloacal* virus titers and cloacal shedding (no. shedding/total) | ||||||
| A/ty/Israel/90710/2000 | 1.2 (1/7) | 1.5 (1/7) | 0 (0/7) | 0 (0/3) | 0 (0/3) | 2.35 (2/3) |
| A/ty/Israel/965/2002 | 1.2 (2/7) | 0 (0/7) | 0 (0/7) | 0 (0/3) | 0 (0/3) | 0 (0/3) |
| A/ty/Israel/1567/2004 | 1.1 (3/7) | 1.7 (3/7) | 0.5 (2/7) | 1.9 (2.3) | 2.1 (2/3) | 0.5 (1/3) |
*
Expressed as Log10EID50/ml