Table 2. The number of dogs showing each viral neutralizing antibody titer against rabies virus in 78 Korean military working dogs by region of residence.
| Region | VNA titer (IU/ml)a) |
No. seropositive/total (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.06 | 0.29 | 0.87 | 1.51 | 2.62 | 4.5 | 7.92 | 13.77 | 23.93 | 41.59 | 72.27 | 125.59 | ||
| Gangwon | 1b) | 1 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 39/40 | ||||
| Gyeonggi | 1b) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10/11 | |||||
| Gyeongnam | 2 | 2/2 | |||||||||||
| Gyeongbuk | 3 | 3/3 | |||||||||||
| Jeonnam | 1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Jeonbuk | 1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Chungnam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3/3 | |||||||||
| Chungbuk | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4/4 | |||||||||
| Seoul | 1 | 1 | 2/2 | ||||||||||
| Sejong | 2 | 2/2 | |||||||||||
| Incheon | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5/5 | ||||||||
| Gwangju | 1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Daegu | 1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Daejeon | 1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Busan | 1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 76/78 (97.4) |
a) Viral neutralizing antibody (VNA) titers against rabies virus were determined by fluorescent antibody virus neutralization (FAVN) test. The protective VNA titers more than 0.5 IU/ml were indicated as seropositive against RABV. b) The VNA titers of 2 dogs working in Gangwon (0.06 IU/ml) and Gyeonggi (0.29 IU/ml) was lower than protective level (0.5 IU/ml).