Figure 1
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Overview of the animal study. PRRSV-negative piglets (n = 100) were purchased and acclimatized for 3 days. Seventy-five pigs were then infected, and 25 pigs were used as a negative control (NC). Pigs belonging to both the NC and infected (I) groups were euthanized at 3, 10, 21, 28 and 35 days post-challenge (dpc), and lung, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and bronchial lymph node (BLN) samples were collected. Blood samples for sera and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were collected weekly post-challenge. The body weight of the pigs was also monitored from the day of purchase to the end of the experiment.