Evaluation of two herd-level diagnostic tests for Streptococcus agalactiae using a latent class approach

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 159, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 181-186

  Mweu, Marshal M ^a   Toft, Nils ^a   Katholm, Jørgen ^b   Nielsen, Søren S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Knowledge Centre for Agriculture   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cattle; Diagnostic test; Herd sensitivity; Herd specificity; Latent class analysis; Streptococcus agalactiae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOVINE MASTITIS; BULK TANK MILK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HERD; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; LATENT PERIOD; MILK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTERIOR CREDIBILITY INTERVAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROPREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BOVINAE; DENMARK; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VETERINARY;

BOS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CATTLE; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; MASS SCREENING; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 84864600931     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.03.037     Document Type: Article

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