Li, Yuan
Hu, Jianhua
Lei, Jing
Fan, Wentao
Bi, Zhenwei
Song, Suquan
Yan, Liping http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7054-1510
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0500800)
Forestry Science and Technology Innovation and Promotion Project of Jiangsu Province (LYKJ[2018]22)
the China Agriculture Research System and Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (CARS-40-K13)
Article History
Received: 3 July 2020
Accepted: 30 November 2020
First Online: 12 February 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No potential financial or non-financial conflict of interest was declared by the authors.
: The animals in this study were treated in compliance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the Ministry of Health, China. All sample collection procedures in the current study were scrutinized and authorized by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Nanjing Agricultural University (approval. no. SYXK (Su) 2017-0007).
: Written informed consent to use 104 clinical serum samples, which were collected from breeding poultry farms in Jiangsu province of China, was obtained from the owner of the animals. All efforts were made to minimize animal suffering during sample collection.