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Volume 7, Number 4—August 2001
THEME ISSUE
West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus

Experimental Infection of Chickens as Candidate Sentinels for West Nile Virus

Stanley A. Langevin, Michel Bunning, Brent Davis, and Nicholas KomarComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

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Table 1

Viremia in West Nile virus (WNV)-NY99-infected chickens

Chicken
Day postinoculation
ID# Age(wk) Infection mode No. mosq. fed 1 2 3 4 5 Cage mate infection
1103 20 N NA --a 3.7 2.7 -- -- -
1108 20 N NA -- 3.8 3.1 -- -- +
1110 20 N NA 2.0b 5.0 3.3 -- -- -
2019 20 N NA -- 2.3 3.4 2.1 -- -
2027 20 N NA 1.7 3.4 2.3 -- -- -
1112 17 M 4-5 3.5 3.6 -- -- -- -
1114 17 M 4-5 3.0 3.4 -- -- -- -
1116 17 M 4-5 3.6 3.7 2.9 -- -- -
1118 17 M 4-5 3.6 3.4 -- -- -- -
1120 17 M 4-5 -- -- -- -- -- -
1122 17 M 4-5 -- -- 3.0 2.8 -- -
2401 17 M 1 -- 1.7 3.4 2.3 -- NT
2402 17 M 2 -- 2.7 3.1 -- -- NT
2404 17 M 1 -- 2.4 2.2 -- -- NT
2595 17 M 1 -- 2.6 3.5 2.2 -- NT
2596 17 M 1 2.4 3.5 -- -- -- NT
1124 60 M 1 2.9 3.6 2.0 -- -- -
1126 60 M 1 -- 4.0 3.4 -- -- -
1128 60 M 1 -- 3.6 2.9 -- -- -
1132 60 M 1 -- 3.9 2.8 -- -- -
1134 60 M 1 4.1 3.9 -- -- -- -

aThreshold of detection is 50 PFU/mL serum.
blog10 Vero PFU per mL serum.
N = needle; NA = not applicable; M = mosquito; NT = not tested.

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