Table 1.

Oligonucleotide primers used for detection of avian respiratory viral pathogens.

Virus	Targeting gene	Primer	Size bp	Reference
Avian influenza	Matrix	M-F TGA TCT TCT TGA AAA TTT GCA	270	(Zakia et al., 2013)
		M-R TGT TGA CCA AAT GAC CCT CG
	H5	H5-F GAT TGT AGT GTA GCY GGA TGG	400	(Hussein et al., 2015)
		H5-R CTT GTC TGC TCT KCM KCA TC
	H9	H9-F CTY CAC ACA GAR CAC AAT GG	500	(Lee et al., 2014)
		H9-R GTC ACA CTT GTT GTT GTR TC
	N8	N8F-ATA GTG ACC GTT GGC TCC ATT TCA	600	This study
		N8R- TGT CTA TTG GCT GGA GCG TCA GTC AT
	H5 HA1	UNI-RG-5 TAT TCG TCT CAG GGA GCG AAA GCA GG	1123	(Lee and Suarez, 2008)
		EGY-H5-R: GCT CGT TGC TAT GGT GGT AC		(Shany, 2015)
NDV	HA	NDV-F ATG GGC TCC AAA CCT TCT ACC AGG	1500	This study
		NDV-R ATG CTC TCG TGG TGG CTC TCA TCT GAT
IBV	S1	XCE1-CAC TGG TAA TTT TTC TGA TGG	464	(Cavanagh et al., 1999)
		XCE1-CTC TAT AAA CAC CCT TAC A
ILT	ICP4	ICP4-2F- CTT CAG ACT CCA GCT CAT CTG	636	(Chacon and Ferreira, 2009)
		ICP4-2R- AGT CAT GCG TCT ATG GCG TTG AC