title: Herd-based monitoring for tuberculosis in extensive swedish deer herds by culling and meat inspection rather than by intradermal tuberculin testing.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Disease Control and Biosecurity, The National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. helene.washlstrom@sva.se
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wahlström
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Carpenter
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Giesecke
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Englund
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vågsholm
mesh_terms: D000003:Abattoirs; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D003670:Deer; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000662:veterinary; D005506:Food Contamination; D009026:Mortality; D013548:Sweden; D014374:Tuberculin Test / Q000662:veterinary; D014380:Tuberculosis, Bovine / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000635:transmission