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. 2020 Jan 16;10:512. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-57545-2

Figure 3.

Figure 3

In vivo rescue of rZIKV by inoculation of different concentrations of pBAC-ZIKV/LPF. Four-to-five-week-old IFNAR−/− A129 male (N = 3) and female (N = 3) mice were inoculated IP with 100, 50, 25, 12.5 or 6.25 µg (top to bottom) of pBAC-ZIKV complexed with LPF as described in Fig. 2. Body weight loss (A) and survival (B) were evaluated at the indicated dpi. Mice that lost more than 20% of their initial body weight or presented hind limb paralysis were humanely euthanized. Error bars represent SD of the mean for each group of mice. Mice were bled at 3, 6 and 9 dpi and viral titers in sera (C) were determined by immunofocus assay (FFU/ml). Symbols represent data from individual mice and bars the geometric means of viral titers. *Virus not detected in one mouse; &, virus not detected in two mice; ND, not detected. Dotted black lines indicate the LoD (200 FFU/ml). Statistically significant differences (p = 0.008) in survival were observed using a Long-rank test. No statistically significant differences (p = 0.179) in viral titers were observed using ANOVA test.