Table 3.
Nasal shedding following infection determined by pseudorabies virus-specific qPCR and virus isolation in swine kidney (SK) cells.
| Group | Animal # | Virus Isolation (PFU/mL) | PRV Genome Copies per 100 ng of DNA (Days Post-Infection) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 3 | Day 5 | Day 3 | Day 5 | Day 15 | Day 21 | Day 28 | ||
| PRV wild-type |
2303 | 4.0 × 104 | 0 | 3.1 × 106 | 1.9 × 104 | 5.7 × 102 | 2.0 × 102 | 0 |
| 2306 | 7.6 × 104 | 0 | 6.7 × 106 | 4.1 × 104 | 3.6 × 102 | 3.8 × 102 | 0 | |
| PRVtmv+ | 2309 | 0 | 0 | 2.9 × 101 | 5.2 × 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2312 | 0 | 0 | 2.4 × 102 | 1.4 × 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2315 | 0 | 0 | 8.1 × 101 | 1.8 × 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |