Table 1. NiV-BD time-course study: viral shedding in respiratory tract secretions, viral genome in blood, and virus replication in tissues.

For Tables 1 and 2. Lymph nodes are the retropharyngeal, submandibular and bronchial nodes. Other organs are liver, kidney, testis, and adrenal gland. ‘●’ denotes a positive result. Dpi, days post infection; RT sec, respiratory tract secretions; URT, upper respiratory tract; LRT, lower respiratory tract.

Dpi	1		2		3		4		5		6			7
Ferret No.	4	9	1	10	6	7	3#	12	5	8#	2#	13#	11#	14#
Blood§										●	●	●	●	●
RT sec					●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Rectal swab
Urine													●
URT					●		●	●		●	●	●	●	●
LRT	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Lymph nodes					●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Spleen								●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Other organs									●	●	●	●	●	●
Brain													●	●

§Viral RNA (by RT-PCR analysis) in whole blood samples

# Fever was detected at euthanasia