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Volume 20, Number 1—January 2014

Dispatch

Novel Avian Coronavirus and Fulminating Disease in Guinea Fowl, France

Etienne Liais1, Guillaume Croville1, Jérôme Mariette, Maxence Delverdier, Marie-Noëlle Lucas, Christophe Klopp, Jérôme Lluch, Cécile Donnadieu, James S. Guy, Léni Corrand, Mariette F. Ducatez, and Jean-Luc GuérinComments to Author 
Author affiliations: French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Toulouse, France (E. Liais, G. Croville, M. Delverdier, M.-N. Lucas, L. Corrand, M.F. Ducatez, J.-L. Guérin); Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Toulouse (E. Liais, G. Croville, M. Delverdier, M.-N. Lucas, L. Corrand, M.F. Ducatez, J.-L. Guérin); INRA 31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France (J. Mariette, C. Klopp; J. Lluch, C. Donnadieu); North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (J. Guy)

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Table 2

Tissue tropism of coronavirus in experimentally and naturally infected guinea fowl poults, as detected by reverse transcription PCR, France, 2010–2011*

Case Duodenum Ileum/colon Pancreas Spleen Bursa of Fabricius
Inoculated 5/5 5/5 0/5 0/5 1/5
Contact 3/5 5/5 0/5 0/5 1/5
Uninfected control 0/5 0/5 0/5 0/5 0/5
Field† 5/5 5/5 NT NT NT

*Data are no. of coronavirus PCR–positive birds/total no. of birds. NT, not tested.
†Intestines (pooled duodenum, ileum, colon samples) from 5 field cases were tested (5–10 birds tested per clinical case). The 5 cases were selected on the basis of clinical signs (severe prostration and death rate >50%).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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