Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Letter
Lack of Transmission of Vaccinia Virus
Table
Sampling outcomes of 43 study participants who received 1 of 3 smallpox vaccines
Variable | All participants (N = 43) | Vaccine group |
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ACAM1000 (n = 14) | ACAM2000 (n = 15) | Dryvax (n = 14) | ||
Mean ± SD titer from lesion*†‡ | ||||
Day 7 | 3.84 ± 0.98 | 3.77 ± 1.15 | 3.85 ± 1.06 | 3.91 ± 0.74 |
Day 10 | 3.75 ± 0.89 | 3.62 ± 0.54 | 3.58 ± 1.21 | 4.07 ± 0.74 |
Day 15 | 4.19 ± 1.40 | 4.08 ± 1.24 | 3.67 ± 1.57 | 4.86 ± 1.18 |
Mean ± SD titer from dressing§ | ||||
Day 7 | 0.63 ± 0.85 | 0.9 ± 1.50 | 0 | 0 |
Day 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Day 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
*Viral shedding results reported as <X were converted to X/2 before calculating.
†Titers are reported as log10 PFU/mL.
‡There were no significant differences among the groups (p>0.05).
§Limit of detection was 1.0 log10 PFU/mL.