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