Volume 11, Number 4—April 2005
Research
Experimental Infection of Prairie Dogs with Monkeypox Virus
Table 2
Monkeypox virus titers in selected tissues of experimentally infected prairie dogs at death
Route of infection | Animal no. | Virus titer (log10 PFU/g of tissue)* |
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Liver | Spleen | Kidney | Lung | Heart | Brain | ||
Intraperitoneal | MPX-1 | 8.1 | 7.2 | 4.3 | 6.7 | 0 | 0 |
MPX-3 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 5.4 | 6.8 | 3.5 | 3.6 | |
MPX-4 | 7.7 | 8.4 | 5.4 | 7.1 | 5.5 | NT | |
Intranasal | MPX-5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NT |
MPX-6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | |
MPX-7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MPX-8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NT | |
MPX-9 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 8.0 | 4.5 | 0 |
*0, <0.7 (<100.7); NT, not tested.