Volume 12, Number 11—November 2006
Dispatch
Food Markets with Live Birds as Source of Avian Influenza
Xiaoping Tang*1, Biao Di*1, Duan-Hua Zhou*1, Bo-Jian Zheng†1, Huaiqi Jing‡1, Yong-Ping Lin†, Yu-Fei Liu*, Xin-Wei Wu*, Peng-Zhe Qin*, Yu-Lin Wang*, Li-Yun Jian*, Xiang-Zhong Li*, Jian-Xiong Xu*, En-Jie Lu*, Tie-Gang Li*, and Jianguo Xu§
Table
Serum and swab sample results from live birds and animal cages sampled at markets in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China*
| Source | Food market | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | ||||||||||||
| T | S | T | S | T | S | T | S | T | S | T | S | T | S | T | S | T | S | T | S | |
| Serum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Poultry purveyors | 22 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 121 | 110 |
| Swabs | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Animal cages | 20 | 10 | 27 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 28 | 8 | 27 | 18 | 24 | 8 | 27 | 24 | 181 | 79 |
| Anal swabs | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicken | 160 | 10 | 190 | 6 | 64 | 6 | 36 | 5 | 95 | 6 | 268 | 7 | 195 | 3 | 160 | 1 | 205 | 13 | 1,373 | 57 |
| Duck | 10 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 37 | 12 |
| Goose | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 7 |
| Pigeon | 15 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 70 | 5 | 140 | 13 |
| Partridge | 30 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 135 | 4 |
| Quail | 80 | 0 | 110 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 265 | 1
*T, total no.; S, no. sampled. Markets and samples from which specimens tested positive for virus genes or neutralizing antibody against highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 are in boldface. |
*T, total no.; S, no. sampled. Markets and samples from which specimens tested positive for virus genes or neutralizing antibody against highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 are in boldface.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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