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Volume 32, Number 1—January 2026

Dispatch

Detection of Avian Influenza H5–Specific Antibodies by Chemiluminescent Assays

Ana Citlali Márquez, Saina Beitari, Tahereh Valadbeigy, Linda Hoang, Yohannes Berhane, and Agatha N. JassemComments to Author 
Author affiliation: British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (A.C. Márquez, S. Beitari, T. Valadbeigy, L. Hoang, A.N. Jassem); University of British Columbia, Vancouver (A.C. Márquez, L. Hoang, A.N. Jassem); Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (Y. Berhane); University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Y. Berhane); University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (Y. Berhane)

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Table

Viruses used to inoculate avian species for serum collection in a study on detection of avian influenza H5-specific antibodies by chemiluminescent assays*

Virus Name Lineage Host HAI titer†
Anti-H5N1 Anti-H5N1 polyclonal antibody‡ Clade 2.3.4.4b Chicken N/A
H5N1 A/chicken/Vietnam/14/2005 Clade 2.3.2 Chicken 256
H5N1 H5 DNA vaccinated with HA from A/mallard/BC/373/2005 (H5N2) and challenged with A/chicken/Vietnam/14/2005 (H5N1) Vaccine: North American; challenge: Clade 2.3.2 Duck 1,024
H5N1 A/teal/Germany/Wv632/2005 Eurasian LPAI Chicken 256
H5N2 A/turkey/Minn/3689-1551-1981 North American Chicken 128
H3N2 A/DK/ON/05/2000 Triple reassortant North American Chicken 128
H5N3 A/TY/CA/35621/1984 North American Chicken 128
H7N3 A/chicken/BC/CN-7/2004 North American Chicken 256
H7N9 A/Anhui/001/2013 East Asian Chicken 128
H9N2 A/Ty/Mn/12877/1285/1981 North American Chicken 128

*HA, hemagglutinin; HAI, hemagglutinin inhibition. †Experimental serum generated at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, where HAI testing was also performed. ‡Creative Diagnostics, https://www.creative-diagnostics.com.

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