Herd-based monitoring for tuberculosis in extensive swedish deer herds by culling and meat inspection rather than by intradermal tuberculin testing.

• The effect of random slaughter and meat inspection as a tool to detect or eradicate tuberculosis in large, extensive deer herds in Sweden was evaluated. A computer spreadsheet model based on the Reed-Frost method was developed. Numbers of new infections and of infected deer slaughtered as well as probability of detecting tuberculosis or slaughtering all infected deer in a herd, were simulated. The model predicted that, given a 20% annual slaughter and that disease was introduced with one infected deer, the infection would be detected or eliminated in most herds (90%) after 15 years.

Subject headings

LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER  -- Veterinärmedicin -- Klinisk vetenskap (hsv//swe)

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES  -- Veterinary Science -- Clinical Science (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Abattoirs

Animal Husbandry

Animals

Cattle

Deer

Disease Transmission/veterinary

Food Contamination

Mortality

Sweden

Tuberculin Test/veterinary

Tuberculosis; Bovine/*diagnosis/transmission

Veterinary epidemiology

Veterinärmedicinsk epidemiologi

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)