. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 15.

Published in final edited form as: Vet Microbiol. 2015 Feb 16;177(0):7–17. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2015.02.008

Table 1.

Experimental design

Groups	Day of inoculation		Days of sampling

	Day 0	Day 2	OP and CL swabs	Necropsy (n=2)	Serology
	Day 0	Day 2	Addition of contacts (n=3)
1 (controls)	-	-	2, 6, 10	2	10
2	vNDV	-	2, 4, 6, 8	2	10
3	LPAIV	-	2, 4, 6, 8	2	10
4	HPAIV	-	2, 4, 6, 8	2	10
5	vNDV + LPAIV	-	2, 4, 6, 8	2	10
6	vNDV +HPAIV	-	2, 4, 6, 8	2	10
7	vNDV	LPAIV	4, 6, 8, 10^*	4^**	10
8	vNDV	HPAIV	4, 6, 8, 10^*	4^**	10
9	LPAIV	vNDV	4, 6, 8, 10^*	4^**	10
10	HPAIV	vNDV	4, 6, 8, 10^*	4^**	10

These time points correspond to 2, 4, 6, 8 days after inoculation with the second virus and 4, 6, 8, and 10 days after inoculation with the first virus.

^**

This time point corresponds to 2 days after inoculation with the second virus.