DIVA strategies in avian influenza virus; present scenario

For the successful eradication campaign of AIV two parameters are to be considered, which are the successful and complete vaccination complemented with the highly specific monitoring programme that can differentiate well between infected and vaccinated animals (DIVA). In all 6 DIVA strategies are applied for monitoring which are (1) Sentinel birds (2) Hetrologus NA strategy (3) Use of subunit vaccine (4) NS1 serology (5) M2e (Transmembrane protein) (6) HA2 glycoprotein based.