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Table 1 Dose-dependent onset of clinical rabies signs after i.m. application of rRABV Dog in the upper hind leg muscle of 6- to 8-week old BALB/c mice

From: Neuroglia infection by rabies virus after anterograde virus spread in peripheral neurons

Virus dose

Euthanized

Salivary gland

Oral swab

TCID50/mouse

(Humane endpoint reached)

Virus RNA

Virus RNA

3000

6/6

6/6

5*/6

300

5/6

5/6

5/6

30

5/6

5/6

5/6

3

2/6

2/6

2/6

  1. Salivary gland and oral swabs were virus RNA positive even at low infection doses. *One oral swab not tested