Abstract:IBV H52 has a genome of approximately 27.6 kb in length, thirteen 1.3-2.9 kb fragments contiguously spanning the virus genome and the N-3’ fragment were amplified and cloned into PMD19-T. Bsa I or BsmB I restriction enzyme sites were introduced into each fragment base on “No see’m” ligation strategy, a silentmutation site was introduced into the D1 fragment and the T7 promoter was incorporated to the 5’UTR and N’3 fragments, the Poly(A) tail was incorporated to the 3’UTR. The complete length cDNA was acquired by seamless connection in vitro. Consequently, the full-length genomic cDNA and N’3 fragment was transcribed and transfected into BHK-21 cells by electroporation to rescue the virus. 48 h post transfection, the cultures of transfected BHK-21 cells was harvested and inoculated into 10-days old SPF embryonated eggs (ECE) to replicate the rescued virus. After five passages, the silentmutation site which was introduced artificially in the tenth (D1) fragment of the rescued virus (H52-R) was detectable, revealed that the H52-R virus was successfully rescued. We characterized the EID50 and HA titers of H52-R and confirmed that they were similar to its parent strain H52.