Table 9.

Range of days for seroconversion and latest detected day of antibody presence in sheep and goats after experimental inoculation with sheep pox virus and goat pox virus

Animals in the study	Laboratory method	Infection	Range of days for seroconversion (days post infection)		Latest day of antibodies detection/end of experiment	Total number of references	Reference ID
			Earliest day of seroconversion	Latest day of seroconversion
Sheep	VNT	Shaded/scarified skin	14 (Afshar et al., 1986)	–	18 months (Davies and Otema, 1978)	2	Davies and Otema (1978), Afshar et al. (1986)
		ID	4 (Boshra et al., 2015)	21 (Bowden et al., 2009)	63 (Bowden et al., 2009)	2	Bowden et al. (2009), Boshra et al. (2015)
		IV + SC	15	–	28	1	Wolff et al. (2020)
		In‐contact	7	–	14	1	Ayalet et al. (2012)
	IgG‐ELISA	ID	4 (Boshra et al., 2015)	21 (Bowden et al., 2009)	63 (Bowden et al., 2009)	2	Bowden et al. (2009), Boshra et al. (2015)
	DA‐ELISA	IV + SC	21	–	28	1	Wolff et al. (2020)
		In‐contact	No seroconversion			1	Wolff et al. (2020)
Goats	VNT	ID	10 (Boshra et al., 2015)	14 (Bowden et al., 2009)	63 (Bowden et al., 2009)	2	Bowden et al. (2009), Boshra et al. (2015)
		IN	15	–	28	1	Wolff et al. (2020)
		IV + SC	10	–	–	1	Wolff et al. (2020)
		In‐contact	7 (Ayalet et al., 2012)	23 (Wolff et al., 2020)	–	2	Ayalet et al. (2012), Wolff et al. (2020)
	IgG‐ELISA	ID	4 (Boshra et al., 2015)	21 (Bowden et al., 2009)	63 (Bowden et al., 2009)	2	Bowden et al. (2009), Boshra et al. (2015)
	DA‐ELISA	IN	21	28	29	1	Wolff et al. (2020)
		IV + SC	10	–	–	1	Wolff et al. (2020)
		In‐contact	No seroconversion			1	Wolff et al. (2020)

ID: intradermal; IN: intranasal; IV: intravenously; SC: subcutaneously; DA: Double‐antigen ELISA.