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Estimating the Prevalence of Salmonella spp. in Swine Herds – Influence of Sensitivity and Specificity of Salmonella Detection by G. Steinbach; T. Blaha; U. Methner is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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Information about the proportion of truly Salmonella-free herds is required for an evaluation of the epidemiological situation, the development of control strategies and their implementation. Findings regarding the presence of salmonellas in faeces and intestinal lymph nodes as well as the presence of Salmonella antibodies in meat juice from slaughtered pigs were obtained in the context of a study conducted by a number of institutes. These data were used for an analysis of the validity of data on the prevalence of infected animals within herds and on the prevalence of infected herds. The proportion of batches or herds with exclusively negative individual findings was found to depend not only on the true proportion of truly Salmonella-free animals within herds but quite essentially also on the distribution of the proportion of infected animals within herds, the sensitivity of the methods of examination and sample sizes. When taking into account the existing dependencies, it was found that among the swine, the real numbers of Salmonella carriers were much higher than shown by bacteriological and serological examination. Regarding salmonellosis in swine, also a number of contaminated
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- Author
- G. Steinbach; T. Blaha; U. Methner
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0931-1793)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)