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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 4

Overview of virus neutralization titers for pig preimmune and immune sera against SARS-CoV and TGEVa

Pig no. Pre-inoculation bleed serum antibody titer
Final bleed serum antibody titer
VNT TGEV VNT SARS PRNT TGEV VNT TGEV VNT SARS PRNT SARS
7
0
0
0
0
20
10
8
20+
0
0
20
320
160
9
10
0
0
0
160
80
10
20
0
0
10
80+
80
11
10
0
0
0
40
40
12 20 0 0 0 80 80

aDetermined by microtiter virus neutralization test (VNT) and plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT). SARS-CoV, severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus; TGEV, transmissible gastroenteritis virus.

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