The course of hepatitis E virus infection in pigs after contact-infection and intravenous inoculation

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 4 Number of pigs that were HEV-infected due to infection routes other than iv in the experiment.

	Direct transmission			Indirect transmission
Type of pig	Transmission type	Exposed pigs	Infected pigs
C1	iv → C1	10	10	0
C2	C1 → C2	8	7	1
C3	C2 → C3	6	5	2*
No. of pigs used in the analyses			22	2

* for one of the two pigs, the moment of becoming infected was unknown and could therefore not be used in the analyses.

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