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All issues Volume 40 / No 1 (January-February 2009) Vet. Res., 40 1 (2009) 10 Full HTML
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Table I.

Swine bioassay study: Experimental design.

Group na Inoculum Amount Dose Route
Bioassay-control 3 PCV2 DNA-negative semen 7 mL – IP*
Bioassay-PCV2a 3 PCV2a DNA-positive semen 7 mL 105.6b IP
Bioassay-PCV2b 3 PCV2b DNA-positive semen 7 mL 105.8b IP
Bioassay-positive 3 PCV2 live virus 3 mL 104.5c IP
a

Number of pigs in each group;

b

PCV2 genomic copy numbers/mL of raw semen;

c

Tissue culture infectious dose (TCID50);

*

Intraperitoneally.