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Therefore, vaccine viruses with a high HA antigen yield (HAY) are preferable for manufacturing vaccines, particularly vaccines in response to a pandemic, when vaccines need to be rapidly produced. However, the viral properties associated with a high HAY have not yet been fully clarified. To identify the HAY-associated traits, we first propagated 26 H5 candidate vaccine viruses (CVVs) in eggs, which were previously developed based on genetic reassortment methods using master viruses, to determine their total protein yield (TPY), ratio of HA to total viral protein (%-HA content) and HAY. The results revealed that the HAY was correlated with the TPY but not with the %-HA content. 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