. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 17.

Published in final edited form as: Arch Virol. 2007 Jun 1;152(10):1901–1910. doi: 10.1007/s00705-007-0994-1

Table 1.

Summary of influenza viral isolation screening and a comparison and Chi-square tests of samples isolated by viral isolation versus the same subset of samples screened by RT-PCR

	Viral isolation			Matrix segment RT-PCR			VI vs. RT-PCR
	Total #	+^a	%	Total #	+	%	χ²	p
Pintail	417	34	8.2	417	54	12.9	4.29	0.038
Mallard	72	8	11.1	72	19	26.4	4.31	0.038
Green Wing Teal	11	0	0	11	1	1	1.00	0.32
Total	500	42	8.4	500	74	14.8	8.35	0.0038

+ = number of positive samples.