. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 27.

Published in final edited form as: Vet Microbiol. 2010 Jul 22;147(3-4):310–319. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.07.016

Table 3.

Seroconversion in specific-pathogen-free chickens experimentally inoculated with capped RNA transcripts from infectious cDNA clones of avian HEV-VA strain (pT7-aHEV-VA) recovered from a healthy chicken, and avian HEV-prototype strain (pT7-aHEV-5) recovered from a chicken with HS syndrome.

Group	Number of seropositive chickens/total number tested at indicated wpi						Overall no. of seroconverted chickens in each group
Group	0	1	2	3^a	4	5^a	Overall no. of seroconverted chickens in each group
Avian HEV-VA (pT7-aHEV-VA)	0/10	0/10	0/10	2/10	3/5	2/5	3/10
Avian HEV-prototype (pT7-aHEV-5)	0/9^b	0/9	0/9	4/9	2/4	2/4	5/9
PBS (Negative control)	0/10	0/10	0/10	0/10	0/5	0/5	0/10

Five chickens were necropsied at 3 wpi and the remaining chickens were necropsied at 5 wpi.

One chicken died 1 day after inoculation.