Volume 21, Number 12—December 2015
Dispatch
Replication Capacity of Avian Influenza A(H9N2) Virus in Pet Birds and Mammals, Bangladesh
Brian J. Lenny, Karthik Shanmuganatham, Stephanie Sonnberg, Mohammed M. Feeroz, S.M. Rabiul Alam, M. Kamrul Hasan, Lisa Jones-Engel, Pamela McKenzie, Scott Krauss, Robert G. Webster, and Jeremy C. Jones
Table 2
Detection of avian influenza A(H9N2) virus in swab samples from environment of inoculated birds, Bangladesh*
| Bird | Sample | Swab titer† |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 dpi | 2 dpi | 3 dpi | 4 dpi | 5 dpi | 6 dpi | ||
| Finch | Water | 3.25 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1 | – | – |
| Cage | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Feces | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Parakeet | Water | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Cage | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Feces | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Chicken | Water | 3.25 | 2.25 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 5.5 | – |
| Cage | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 3.25 | 2.5 | |
| Feces | 3 | < | 3.25 | 3.75 | 2.5 | – | |
*dpi, days post-inoculation; –, below the limit of detection (<0.75 50% egg infectious doses [EID50]/mL).
†Samples were titrated in embryonated chicken eggs and reported as log10 EID50/mL.
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