Review Article
Accuracy of Tests for Diagnosis of Animal Tuberculosis: Moving Away from the Golden Calf (and towards Bayesian Models)
Table 2
Characteristics of the studies included in the systematic review.
| | Category | Number of articles (25) | Number of trials (71) |
| Origin of the study | Europe | 11 | 44 | South America | 4 | 13 | North America | 2 | 3 | Africa | 4 | 5 | Asia | 4 | 6 |
| Animal species | Bovine | 19 | 63 | Wild boar | 1 | 2 | Elk/deer | 1 | 2 | Swine | 1 | 1 | Bison | 1 | 1 | Meerkat | 1 | 1 | Badger | 1 | 1 |
| Conditional dependence | Yes | 20 | 49 | No | 11 | 22 |
| Number of populations | 1 | 15 | 42 | 2 | 5 | 19 | Multiple | 5 | 10 |
| Number of tests | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 17 | Multiple | 18 | 48 |
| Diagnostic test | Antemortem | 20 | 61 | (i) Skin test | 13 | 49 | (ii) IFN-γ | 12 | 44 | (iii) Serology | 13 | 39 | Postmortem | 13 | 30 | (i) Culture | 9 | 17 | (ii) Direct PCR | 10 | 21 | (iii) Pathology | 2 | 10 | (iv) Meat inspection | 5 | 9 | (v) Culture + Meat inspection | 1 | 3 |
| Source of priors | Unspecified | 0 | 0 | Literature | 13 | 26 | Expert knowledge and literature | 7 | 26 | Weakly-informative | 5 | 19 |
| Software | Win BUGS | 13 | 33 | Open BUGS | 7 | 17 | JAGS | 5 | 21 |
| Test dependence | Skin test-IFN-γ | 7 | 26 | Skin test-serology | 1 | 1 | Serology-serology | 5 | 6 | PCR-culture | 5 | 7 | PCR-meat inspection | 2 | 3 | PCR-pathology | 1 | 2 |
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