Volume 13, Number 8—August 2007
Dispatch
Avian Influenza (H5N1) Susceptibility and Receptors in Dogs
Riks Maas*
, Mirriam Tacken*, Lisette Ruuls*, Guus Koch*, Eugene van Rooij*, and Norbert Stockhofe-Zurwieden*
, Mirriam Tacken*, Lisette Ruuls*, Guus Koch*, Eugene van Rooij*, and Norbert Stockhofe-Zurwieden*Table 2
Antibody titers in serum of dogs inoculated with avian influenza (H5N1)*
| Dog | Days postinoculation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 |
7 |
14 |
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| ELISA | HI† | ELISA | HI† | ELISA | HI† | |||
| 1 | – | – | – | – | + | 16 | ||
| 2 | – | – | – | – | + | 16 | ||
| 3 | – | – | + | 16 | + | 32 | ||
*Antibodies were measured in a nucleoprotein-blocking ELISA and in the hemagluttination-inhibition (HI) assay at different days postinoculation. +, antibodies detected; –, antibodies not detected.
†HI titers are presented as the reciprocal to the highest serum dilutions completely inhibiting agglutination of chicken erythrocytes by influenza (H5N1) virus.
