Tuberculosis Mastoiditis Caused by Mycobacterium Bovis

Smith, Sherilyn; Anders, Bronwen

doi:10.1097/00006454-199406000-00014

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“…A number of mathematical models have been developed to represent the spread of bTB and assess the effectiveness of control measures, especially for wildlife (badgers, opossums and white-tailed deer) [11]. Several models have been built to simulate the dynamics of bTB within cattle herds, to quantify the importance of within-farm bTB transmission by estimating the within-herd transmission coefficient of infection [2], [12]–[14] or to evaluate detection and control strategies against bTB [2], [13], [15], [16].…”

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Modeling Tuberculosis Dynamics, Detection and Control in Cattle Herds

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Epidemiological models are key tools for designing and evaluating detection and control strategies against animal infectious diseases. In France, after decades of decrease of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) incidence, the disease keeps circulating. Increasing prevalence levels are observed in several areas, where the detection and control strategy could be adapted. The objective of this work was to design and calibrate a model of the within-herd transmission of bTB. The proposed model is a stochastic model operating in discrete-time. Three health states were distinguished: susceptible, latent and infected. Dairy and beef herd dynamics and bTB detection and control programs were explicitly represented. Approximate Bayesian computation was used to estimate three model parameters from field data: the transmission parameter when animals are inside (βinside) and outside (βoutside) buildings, and the duration of the latent phase. An independent dataset was used for model validation. The estimated median was 0.43 [0.16–0.84] month−1 for βinside and 0.08 [0.01–0.32] month−1 for βoutside. The median duration of the latent period was estimated 3.5 [2]–[8] months. The sensitivity analysis showed only minor influences of fixed parameter values on these posterior estimates. Validation based on an independent dataset showed that in more than 80% of herds, the observed proportion of animals with detected lesions was between the 2.5% and 97.5% percentiles of the simulated distribution. In the absence of control program and once bTB has become enzootic within a herd, the median effective reproductive ratio was estimated to be 2.2 in beef herds and 1.7 in dairy herds. These low estimates are consistent with field observations of a low prevalence level in French bTB-infected herds.

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