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Table 1 Summary of the safety data after oral administration of high doses of SAG2 vaccine to foxes and raccoon dogs

From: Twenty year experience of the oral rabies vaccine SAG2 in wildlife: a global review

Species

No of animals, route (mean age)

SAG dose per animal

Time of observation

Specific morbidity/mortality

Virus isolation from saliva swabs

Rabies virus positive brains

Rabies virus positive salivary glands

Seroconversion

Source

Fox

10 p.o. (6 months to 2.5 years)

109.8 CCID50

183 days

0/10

0/10 (D0, D1, D3, D7)

0/10

0/10

10/10

[26]

 

10 p.o. (9 months)

109 p.f.u.

175 days

0/10

0/10 (D1, D3, D6)

0/10

0/10

10/10

 

Raccoon dog

5 p.o. instillation (6 months)

1010.0 CCID50

60 days

0/5

 

0/5

0/5

5/5

[35]

 

5 p.o. bait (6 months)

109.9 CCID50

60 days

0/5

 

0/5

0/5

5/5

 
  1. p.o. = per os, D = day, p.f.u. = plaque forming units, CCID50 = cell culture infective dose 50%.