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Volume 26, Number 3—March 2020
Dispatch

Avian Influenza Virus Detection Rates in Poultry and Environment at Live Poultry Markets, Guangdong, China

Kit Ling Cheng1, Jie Wu1, Wei Ling Shen, Alvina Y.L. Wong, Qianfang Guo, Jianxiang Yu, Xue Zhuang, Wen Su, Tie Song, Malik Peiris, Hui-Ling Yen2Comments to Author , and Eric H.Y. Lau2
Author affiliations: University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (K.L. Cheng, A.Y.L. Wong, W. Su, M. Peiris, H.-L. Yen, E.H.Y. Lau); Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangdong, China (J. Wu, W.L. Shen, Q. Guo, J. Yu, X. Zhuang, T. Song)

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Figure 1

Monthly AIV H5, H7, and H9 positivity rates detected in poultry and environmental samples at live poultry markets (LPMs), Guangdong, China, December 2015–July 2018. Chicken (oropharyngeal and cloacal swab specimens) and environmental (swab specimens and air samples) samples were collected monthly from 1 retail and 1 wholesale LPM in Guangzhou and tested for H5, H7, and H9 AIV by real-time RT-PCR. Gray bars indicate mean temperatures recorded on the sampling date in Guangzhou. AIV, avian influenz

Figure 1. Monthly AIV H5, H7, and H9 positivity rates detected in poultry and environmental samples at live poultry markets (LPMs), Guangdong, China, December 2015–July 2018. Chicken (oropharyngeal and cloacal swab specimens) and environmental (swab specimens and air samples) samples were collected monthly from 1 retail and 1 wholesale LPM in Guangzhou and tested for H5, H7, and H9 AIV by real-time RT-PCR. Gray bars indicate mean temperatures recorded on the sampling date in Guangzhou. AIV, avian influenza virus.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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