Volume 14, Number 9—September 2008
Research
Excretion of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Infectivity in Urine
Luisa Gregori, Gabor G. Kovacs, Irina Alexeeva, Herbert Budka, and Robert G. Rohwer
Table 2
End-point dilution titration of urinary bladder and kidney from scrapie-infected hamsters
| Dilution | Total/no. infected |
|
|---|---|---|
| Bladder | Kidney | |
| 10–1 | 19/19 | 4/4 |
| 10–1.3 | 8/8 | 20/20 |
| 10–1.7 | 8/8 | 8/8 |
| 10–2 | 4/4 | 8/8 |
| 10–3 | 4/4 | 4/3 |
| 10–4 | 4/2 | 4/1 |
| 10–5 | 4/1 | 4/0 |
| 10–6 | 4/0 | 4/0 |
| Titer (log10 ID50/g)* | 5.5 | 5.0 |
| Standard error | 0.5 | 0.4 |
