“…Thirty-three RA strains were isolated from infected duck farms in China between 1997 and 2009 [15], including 15 strains of serotype 1 (WJ4, CH3, NJ1, NJ2, NJ4, CQ1, CQ3, CQ4, CQ5, JY4, YL4, YXB12, YXB14, NN2 and NN3), ten strains of serotype 2 (SC2, NJ3, B2, TH4, YXB1, NN5, GD3, GD4, GD5 and GD7), three strains of serotype 10 (YXL1, HXB2 and YXB11), one strain of serotype 15 (NN6) and four strains of unknown serotype (NN11, GD1, GD6 and JY6). All the RA strains were cultured in tryptic soy broth (TSB, Difco, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) at 37 C with 5% CO 2 .…”