Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank Dr. Siti Nor Azizah Mahamud for assistance with the experimental animal procedures and other staff of the Laboratory of Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia for their helpfulness in the collection of FAdV isolates.
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