ICT - MILSTEIN   05483
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA "DR. CESAR MILSTEIN"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Accuracy of Herdsmen Reporting versus Serologic Testing for Estimating Foot-and-Mouth Disease Prevalence
Autor/es:
MORGAN, K.L.; HANDEL, I.G.; TANYA, V.N.; HAMMAN, S.M.; NFON, C.; BERGMANN, I.E.; MALIRAT, V.; SORENSEN, K.J.; BRONSVOORT, B.
Revista:
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Editorial:
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
Referencias:
Lugar: Atlanta; Año: 2014 vol. 20 p. 2048 - 2054
ISSN:
1080-6040
Resumen:
Herdsman-reported disease prevalence is widely used
in veterinary epidemiologic studies, especially for diseases
with visible external lesions; however, the accuracy of such
reports is rarely validated. Thus, we used latent class analysis
in a Bayesian framework to compare sensitivity and
specificity of herdsman reporting with virus neutralization
testing and use of 3 nonstructural protein ELISAs for estimates
of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) prevalence on the
Adamawa plateau of Cameroon in 2000. Herdsman-reported
estimates in this FMD-endemic area were comparable
to those obtained from serologic testing. To harness to this
cost-effective resource of monitoring emerging infectious
diseases, we suggest that estimates of the sensitivity and
specificity of herdsmen reporting should be done in parallel
with serologic surveys of other animal diseases.