FIG 1.
Depiction of experimental timeline with vaccination, challenge (Δ), and blood collection for immune response evaluation (↑, black arrows) marked at approximate weeks after vaccination or experimental/infectious challenge (postinfection [PI]). A total of 24 crossbred heifers were assigned to 4 groups, vaccine or nonvaccinated control group, with 6 cattle per group. Due to space constraints in the agricultural biosafety level 2 (Ag-BSL-2) containment facility, half of the cattle were challenged in replicate 1 and half of the cattle were challenged in replicate 2.
