TY - JOUR AU - Marcus, Philip I. AU - Girshick, Theodore AU - van der Heide, Louis AU - Sekellick, Margaret J. T1 - Super-Sentinel Chickens and Detection of Low-Pathogenicity Influenza Virus T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 10 SP - 1608 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Chicken interferon-α administered perorally in drinking water acts on the oropharyngeal mucosal system as an adjuvant that causes chickens to rapidly seroconvert after natural infection by low-pathogenicity Influenza virus. These chickens, termed super sentinels, can serve as sensitive early detectors of clinically inapparent infections. KW - chicken interferon KW - avian influenza KW - peroral adjuvant KW - influenza virus KW - sentinel chickens KW - dispatch KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1310.061552 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/10/06-1552_article ER - End of Reference