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

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 1 Differences in five parameters describing the course of HEV-infection in contact-infected and iv inoculated pigs

			P-values
Days...	Contact-infected	Intravenously inoculated	Block 1	Block 2	Joined*
until faecal HEV RNA excretion	7.2 (4.8 – 9.6)	3.2 (2.0 – 4.3)	0.013	0.020	0.002
with faecal HEV RNA excretion	23.3 (18.7 – 27.9)	39.9 (27.7 – 52.1)	0.021	0.275	0.036
until viremia^†	12.6 (8.3 – 17.0)	3.8 (2.2 – 5.4)	0.052	0.048	0.017
with viremia	10.5 (8.1 – 13.0)	26.2 (16.6 – 35.8)	0.089	0.345	0.137
until antibody development^†	13.0 (10.3 – 15.6)	12.5 (10.4 – 14.6)	0.067	0.300	0.097

* Fisher's joint p-value
^† since first faecal HEV RNA excretion
Statistical differences were absent among C1-, C2- and C3-contact infected pigs for these five parameters, for which the data for contact-infected pigs were pooled.

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