Table 4.
Virus titers in cloacal and oropharyngeal swabs from SPF chicken.
| Strains | Days post-inoculation (log10EID50/0.1 ml) ± SDa | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Day | 5 Day | 7 Day | 9 Day | 11 Day | |||||||
| Oropharyngeal swabs | Cloacal swabs | Oropharyngeal swabs | Cloacal swabs | Oropharyngeal swabs | Cloacal swabs | Oropharyngeal swabs | Cloacal swabs | Oropharyngeal swabs | Cloacal swabs | ||
| GSE43 | Infectedb | 0/3 | 1/3 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | – | – |
| Contactc | 1/3 | 0/3 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | |
| CKE93 | Infectedb | 0/6 | 0/6 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 |
| Contactc | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | |
a
For statistical purposes, a value of 1.5 was assigned if virus was not detected from the undiluted sample in three embryonated hen's eggs (Sun et al., 2011).
b
Chickens inoculated with virus.
c
Naive contact chickens housed with those inoculated.