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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Virology. 2016 Dec 6;501:176–182. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.12.001

Table II.

Survival of vaccinated birds after heterologous challenges*.

Challenge Strain** Challenge Subtype Total Birds Dead Dead Survived Survival
DPI: 2 DPI: 3 DPI: 14
Vacc/Ck/NJ H9 LPAI 10 10 10/10
Vacc/Jalisco H7 10 10 10/10
Vacc/Tk/MN15 H5 10 10 10/10
Sham-Ck/NJ H9 LPAI 10 10 10/10
Sham-Jalisco H7 10 7 3 0 0/10
Sham-Tk/MN15 H5 10 8 2 0 0/10

DPI, days post infection; LPAI, low pathogenicity avian influenza.

*

Strains included into H5/H7/H9/N1/gag VLP vaccines were the following: A/chicken/West Java Sbg/29/2007 (H5N1), A/turkey/Oregon/1971 (H7N3) and A/turkey/Wisconsin/1/1966 (H9N2).

**

Challenge strains were the following: A/turkey/Minnesota/7172-1/2015 (H5N2), A/chicken/Jalisco/CPA1/2012 (H7N3) and A/chicken/New Jersey/12220/1997 (H9N2).