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Research Project:
AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS: TRANSMISSION STUDIES BETWEEN BIRDS AND SWINE, AND DEVELOPMENT OF SEROLOGIC TESTS
Location: Virus and Prion Diseases of Livestock
Project Number: 3625-32000-088-17
Project Type:
Reimbursable
Start Date: Dec 15, 2006
End Date: Jun 15, 2008
Objective:
Determine the diagnostic feasibility of using chickens as a sentinel to detect infection of swine with selected avian influenza virus subtypes. Develop an ELISA test that can detect seroconversion in swine to an avian influenza virus H5 subtype.
Approach:
Indirect transmission studies will involve naive chickens co-housed in the same isolation room with pigs infected with select high-pathogenic avian influenza virus. An ELISA will be developed utilizing whole virus antigen that is inactivated.
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Last Modified: 10/21/2008
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