Table 1 IAV isolates from Chinese LBMs used for validation and sensitivity determination of PCRs in this study.

From: Detection of influenza A virus from live-bird market poultry swab samples in China by a pan-IAV, one-step reverse-transcription FRET-PCR

IAV strain

IAV subtype

Detection limit

EID50

Pan-IAV PCR

A/Chicken/Jiangsu/W5-11/2014

H1N1

10−6

10−7

A/Chicken/Jiangsu/Ycd-2/2013

H3N3

10−6

10−7

A/Duck/Jiangsu/W14-5/2014

H4N6

10−7

10−7

A/Duck/Jiangsu/SY/2005

H5N1

10−6

10−7

A/Duck/Jiangsu/W7-5/2013

H6N1

10−4

10−6

A/Chicken/Jiangsu/ZJDT1-8/2014

H7N9

10−8

10−8

A/Chicken/Jiangsu/J10-3/2014

H9N2

10−6

10−6

A//Duck /Jiangsu/J3-5/2014

H10N8

10−6

10−7

A/Duck/Jiangsu/J14-3/2014

H11N2

10−6

10−6