Table 1

Experimental timeline for raccoon vaccination (RCN-F1 and Raboral V-RG®) and blood sample collection

Day
Activity

Pre-experiment
Raccoon capture, quarantine, and pre-experiment blood sample (blood sample 1)
-2
Second pre-experiment blood samples (blood sample 2)
0
108 pfu RCN-F1 administered to 10 raccoons at random
30
Blood sample 3
33
107 pfu Raboral V-RG® administered to all raccoons
69
Blood sample 4
97
Blood sample 5
118
108 pfu Raboral V-RG® administered to all raccoons
149a
Blood sample 6
179
Blood sample 7
210
Blood sample 8
237
Blood sample 9
252
Blood sample 10

aTo save resources, serologic assays were not conducted on samples collected from all sampling occasions.

Root et al. BMC Immunology 2008 9:57   doi:10.1186/1471-2172-9-57