Table 1.
Incidence of diarrhea and fecal virus shedding in Gn pigs after HuNoV GII.4 challengea.
Group | n | Diarrheab |
Virus sheddingb |
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Pigs with diarrhea (%)∗ | Mean days to onset (SEM)∗∗ | Mean duration days (SEM)∗∗ | Pigs shedding virus (%)∗ | Mean days to onset (SEM)∗∗ | Mean duration days (SEM)∗∗ | ||
Cocktail-7d | 5 | 1 (20%)A | 7.0 (1.0)A | 0.2 (0.2)A | 4 (80%)A | 4.0 (1.2)AB | 1.0 (0.3)AB |
Cocktail+1d | 5 | 1 (20%)A | 7.2 (0.8)A | 0.2 (0.2)A | 5 (100%)A | 4.8 (0.2)AB | 1.0 (0)A |
RB-7d | 4 | 3 (75%)AB | 3.3 (1.6)AB | 1.3 (0.5)AB | 3 (75%)A | 6.3 (0.8)A | 1.5 (0.6)AB |
LGG+EcN | 5 | 3 (60%)AB | 4.0 (1.6)AB | 1.8 (1.1)AB | 0B | 8.0 (0)C | 0C |
Control | 9 | 8 (89%)B | 3.9 (0.7)B | 2.2 (0.4)B | 8 (89%)A | 2.8 (0.8)B | 3.2 (0.9)B |
aGn pigs were inoculated with a HuNoV GII.4 2006b variant 092895 at 33 days of age. Diarrhea and virus shedding were monitored by daily rectal swab sampling and RT-qPCR after inoculation. Calculation included all pigs in each group from PID1 to PID7.
bIf diarrhea or virus shedding was not observed, the days to onset was recorded as 8 and the duration days was recorded as 0 for statistical purposes.
∗Fisher’s exact test or ∗∗Kruskal–Wallis test was used for comparisons. Different letters indicate significant differences among treatment groups (P < 0.05), while shared letters indicate no significant difference.