Domestic Poultry and SARS Coronavirus, Southern China

Domestic Poultry and SARS Coronavirus, Southern China

David E. Swayne, David L. Suarez, Erica Spackman, Terrence M Tumpey, Joan R. Beck, Dean D. Erdman, Pierre E Rollin, Thomas G. Ksiazek

SARS coronavirus injected intratracheally into chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, and quail, or into the allantoic sac of their embryonating eggs, failed to cause disease or replicate. This finding suggests that domestic poultry were unlikely to have been the reservoir, or associated with dissemination, of SARS coronavirus in the animal markets of southern China.

2004

disease, pathogenesis, poultry, reservoir, SARS-coronavirus, China

DOI: 10.3201/eid1005.030827

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine

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