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.

CategoryNumber of articles (25)Number of trials (71)

Origin of the studyEurope1144
South America413
North America23
Africa45
Asia46

Animal speciesBovine1963
Wild boar12
Elk/deer12
Swine11
Bison11
Meerkat11
Badger11

Conditional dependenceYes2049
No1122

Number of populations11542
2519
Multiple510

Number of tests126
2517
Multiple1848

Diagnostic testAntemortem2061
(i) Skin test1349
(ii) IFN-γ1244
(iii) Serology1339
Postmortem1330
(i) Culture917
(ii) Direct PCR1021
(iii) Pathology210
(iv) Meat inspection59
(v) Culture + Meat inspection13

Source of priorsUnspecified00
Literature1326
Expert knowledge and literature726
Weakly-informative519

SoftwareWin BUGS1333
Open BUGS717
JAGS521

Test dependenceSkin test-IFN-γ726
Skin test-serology11
Serology-serology56
PCR-culture57
PCR-meat inspection23
PCR-pathology12