Yan, Liping https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7054-1510
Hu, Jianhua
Lei, Jing
Shi, Zhiyu
Xiao, Qian
Bi, Zhenwei
Yao, Lu
Li, Yuan
Chen, Yuqing
Fang, An
Li, Hui
Song, Suquan
Liao, Min
Zhou, Jiyong
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0500800)
Key Program of Science and Technology Planning of Guangdong Province (2017B020202010)
the Agricultural Science & Technology Independent Innovation Fund of Jiangsu Province (CX(15)1065)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31402150)
the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Y0201600146)
the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
Article History
Received: 19 April 2018
Accepted: 20 August 2018
First Online: 17 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was performed in accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the Ministry of Health, China. The protocol of the current study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Nanjing Agricultural University (approval no. SYXK 2017–0007). Written informed consent to use 328 clinical serum samples, which were collected from a chicken farm, were obtained from the owner of the animals. All efforts were made to minimize animal suffering during sample collection.
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