Volume 16, Number 4—April 2010
Dispatch
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Breeding Turkeys, Valparaiso, Chile
Christian Mathieu, Valentina Moreno, Patricio Retamal, Alvaro Gonzalez, Alejandro Rivera, Jorge Fuller, Cecilia Jara, Claudio Lecocq, Miriam Rojas, Alfonso García, Marcela Vasquez, Michel Agredo, Cristian Gutiérrez, Hector Escobar, Rodrigo Fasce, Judith Mora, Julio García, Jorge Fernández, Claudio Ternicier, and Patricia Avalos
Table
Laboratory results of testing conducted on turkey farms affected by the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza outbreak, Valparaiso Region, Chile, 2009*
| Farm | Flock no. | Results |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkeys |
AGID |
rRT-PCR |
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| No. | Age, wk | No. animals sampled | No. positive | No. animals sampled | No. positive | Ct | ||||
| A |
1 | 7,032 | 53 | 28 | 18 | 26 | 3 | 31.4 | ||
| 2 | 4,410 | 77 | 28 | 25 | 43 | 1 | 34.8 | |||
| 3 | 7,556 | 49 | 28 | 17 | 19 | 0 | ||||
| 4 |
6,922 |
37 |
56 |
52 |
42 |
0 |
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| B | 1 | 7,004 | 45 | 28 | 2 | 30 | 3 | 34.9 | ||
| 4 | 5,950 | 57 | 59 | 26 | 47 | 6 | 27.1 | |||
*AGID, agar gel immunodiffusion assay; rRT-PCR, real-time reverse transcription–PCR to detect matrix protein; Ct, cycle threshold values of positive results (averages).
