Super-Sentinel Chickens and Detection of Low-Pathogenicity Influenza Virus

Abstract

Chicken interferon-α administered perorally in drinking water acts on the oropharyngeal mucosal system as an adjuvant that causes chickens to rapidly seroconvert after natural infection by low-pathogenicity Influenza virus. These chickens, termed super sentinels, can serve as sensitive early detectors of clinically inapparent infections.

Keywords

• chicken interferon
• avian influenza
• peroral adjuvant
• influenza virus
• sentinel chickens
• dispatch