Domestic poultry and SARS coronavirus, southern China.
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.
Swayne
David E
DE
Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Athens, Georgia 30605, USA. dswayne@seprl.usda.gov
Suarez
David L
DL
Spackman
Erica
E
Tumpey
Terrence M
TM
Beck
Joan R
JR
Erdman
Dean
D
Rollin
Pierre E
PE
Ksiazek
Thomas G
TG
D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic / Q000821:virology*; D002681:China; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D006801:Humans; D011200:Poultry / Q000821:virology*; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000821:virology; D045473:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000662:veterinary / Q000821:virology