TABLE 6.
Identification and characterization of swab samples from juvenile penguins using hemagglutination inhibition assay, PCR and VI
| Bird no.a | Resultb |
Location | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APMV10 serumc | PCR | VI | ||
| 324OP | 32 | + | + | Eagle Hill 3 |
| 323CL | 32 | + | + | Eagle Hill 3 |
| 437CL | 32 | + | + | Rugged Hill 1 |
| 539CL | 128 | + | + | Rugged Hill 2 |
| 528OP | n/a | + | − | Rugged Hill 2 |
Letters indicate sample type: OP, oropharyngeal; CL, cloacal.
n/a, not applicable since no virus was isolated. −, negative; +, positive.
Antibody titer calculated from the highest dilution of serum able to inhibit hemagglutinin, using B HA units of the APMV10 viruses.