Table 5.
Virus detection by RT-PCR in tissue of SPF or broiler chicks infected with IBV IS/885 strain.
| Days post infection | SPF |
Broiler |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tr | L | CT | Kid | Tr | L | CT | Kid | |
| 3 | 5a | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 12 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 21 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 28 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| Totalb | 28 | 31 | 30 | 27 | 19 | 6 | 28 | 12 |
Tr = Trachea, L = lung, CT = caecal tonsil, Kid = kidney.
a
Values presented are number of IBV-positive out of five birds examined.
b
Total number of tissues that was positive for IBV.