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Volume 10, Number 2—February 2004
THEME ISSUE
2004 SARS Edition

SARS Origins

Susceptibility of Pigs and Chickens to SARS Coronavirus

Hana M. Weingartl*Comments to Author , John Copps*, Michael A. Drebot*, Peter Marszal*, Greg Smith*, Jason Gren*, Maya Andonova*, John Pasick*, Paul Kitching*, and Markus Czub*
Author affiliations: *Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Table 3

Summary of RT-PCR results on chicken tissuesa

Chicken
no. dpi Lung
 Trachea
 Heart
 Liver
 Spleen
 Kidney
 Jejunum
N BNI N BNI N BNI N BNI N BNI N BNI N BNI
115
 6
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
118
 7
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
114
 13
 +
 +
 +
 +
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 +
 -
 -
 -
116
 14
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
113
 15
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
117 16 + - + - - - - - - - + + - -

aRT-PCR, reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction; dpi, days postinfection; N, nucleocapsid.

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