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. 2012 Oct 30;9:251. doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-9-251

Table 4.

Hemagglutination inhibition (HI) titers of immune/reference sera against H5N1 viruses in HI assay with five different types of RBCs

Sr. No.
Virus strain
Antisera
RBCs
 
 
 
Turkey (0.5%)
Fowl (0.5%)
Goose (1%)
Guinea Pig (0.75%)
Horse (1%)
        HI titer      
1
A/chicken/Navapur/India/7972/2006 (H5N1)
H5N1-NIV
320
160
320
320
1280
 
 
H5N1-OIE
20
20
20
20
20
 
 
H5N1-WHO
320
80
160
320
640
2
A/chicken/Manipur/NIV9743/2007 (H5N1)
H5N1-NIV
No titer
20
No titer
160
640
 
 
H5N1-OIE
20
No titer
No titer
20
20
 
 
H5N1-WHO
160
160
320
640
320
3
A/chicken/India/AS-NIV15983/ 2008/11/27 (H5N1)
H5N1-NIV
1280
640
2560
1280
320
 
 
H5N1-OIE
80
40
320
320
20
 
 
H5N1-WHO
1280
640
2560
1280
160
4
A/chickenIndia/WB-NIV2811/2008 (H5N1)
H5N1-NIV
2560
640
2560
5120
5120
 
 
H5N1-OIE
80
160
40
1280
640
 
 
H5N1-WHO
1280
640
1280
5120
5120
5
A/chicken/India/NIV33487/06-RG-2008 (H5N1)
H5N1-NIV
320
320
640
480
480
 
 
H5N1-OIE
160
240
320
240
480
  Geometric mean titer   245.1 165.0 403.2 434.3 339.0

Note: For calculation of geometric mean antibody titers, value for “No titer” was 5.