Meta-analytical equivalence studies on diagnostic tests for bovine brucellosis allowing assessment of a test against a group of comparative tests

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 373-381

  Greiner, Matthias ^a,b   Verloo, Didier ^c   de Massis, Fabrizio ^c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b International EpiLab   (Denmark)

^c EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Cattle; Equivalence; Meta analysis; Power; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNODIFFUSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; META ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS, BOVINE; CATTLE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TESTS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNODIFFUSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 70449100768     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.07.014     Document Type: Article

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