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Volume 24, Number 12—December 2018
Dispatch

Vaccinia Virus among Domestic Dogs and Wild Coatis, Brazil, 2013–2015

Galileu Barbosa Costa, Lara Ribeiro de Almeida, Aline Gabriele Ribeiro Cerqueira, Wander Ulisses Mesquita, Jaqueline Silva de Oliveira, Júlia Bahia Miranda, Ana Teresa Saraiva-Silva, Jônatas Santos Abrahão, Betânia Paiva Drumond, Erna Geessien Kroon, Pedro Lúcio Lithg Pereira, Danielle Ferreira de Magalhães Soares, and Giliane de Souza Trindade
Author affiliations: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (G.B. Costa, L.R. de Almeida, A.G.R. Cerqueira, J.S. de Oliveira, J.B. Miranda, A.T. Saraiva-Silva, J.S. Abrahão, B.P. Drumond, E.G. Kroon, P.L.L. Pereira, D.F. de Magalhães Soares, G. de Souza Trindade); Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil (W.U. Mesquita)

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Table 2

Diagnostic results for 7 domestic dogs and 6 wild coatis with neutralizing antibodies for vaccinia virus, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2031–2015*

Animal
 PRNT70 titer (NU/mL)
 qPCR C11R
qPCR A56R Strain
Serum sample
 Anal swab sample
 Serum sample
 Anal swab sample
Dog 2 1:40 (100) + – + – Group 1
Dog 58 1:80 (200) + + + – Group 1
Dog 41 1:40 (100) + – – –
Dog 77 1:80 (200) + + + – Group 1
Dog 86 1:40 (100) + – – –
Dog 121 1:160 (400) + – + – Group 1
Dog 128 1:160 (400) + + + + Group 2
Coati 5 1:40 (100) + + + + Group 2
Coatis 17 1:40 (100) + – – –
Coatis 27 1:80 (200) + – – –
Coatis 39 1:160 (400) + + + + Group 2
Coatis 48 1:40 (100) + + + – Group 1
Coatis 50 1:80 (200) + + + + Group 2

*NU, neutralizing units; PRNT70, 70% plaque reduction neutralization test; qPCR, quantitative PCR.

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