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Table 3.

Description of 117 swabs from H7N1 experimentally infected poultry used for validation of the two H7 RRT PCRs

Group ID	Species	Pathogenicity of H7N1 inoculum	Numbers of swabs (buccal ‘B’, cloacal ‘C’) sampled at various times post‐infection (hours)								Total number of swabs per group
Group ID	Species	Pathogenicity of H7N1 inoculum	0 hours	24 hours	32 hours	40 hours	48 hours	64 hours	72 hours	120 hours	Total number of swabs per group
A	Chicken	LP	1B, 1C		3B	3B	6B, 6C, 4B	10B, 1C	(15B, 15C)	4B, 5C	74
B	Turkey	LP								3B, 5B	8
C	Turkey	HP		7B, 4C, (5B, 3C)			1B, 1C		9B, 5C		35
											117 total swabs from infection studies

All swabs were collected from poultry that were directly inoculated with H7N1, except 26 swabs collected from sentinel birds indicated by italics

Parentheses indicate the additional 38 swabs from directly inoculated birds that were used for validation of both H7 RRT PCRs in comparison to M gene RRT PCR.

*indicates swabbing immediately before direct inoculation.