Estimation of sensitivity and specificity of bulk tank milk PCR and 2 antibody ELISA tests for herd-level diagnosis of Mycoplasma bovis infection using Bayesian latent class analysis.

Autor:	McAloon CI; Section of Herd Health and Animal Husbandry, School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Electronic address: catherine.mcaloon@ucd.ie., McAloon CG; Section of Herd Health and Animal Husbandry, School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland., Barrett D; National Disease Control Centre, Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine, Dublin, D02 WK12 Ireland., Tratalos JA; Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland., McGrath G; Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland., Guelbenzu M; Animal Health Ireland, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, N41 WN27 Ireland., Graham DA; Animal Health Ireland, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, N41 WN27 Ireland., Kelly A; Animal Health Ireland, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, N41 WN27 Ireland., O'Keeffe K; Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine, Blood Testing Laboratory, Cork, T12 DK73 Ireland., More SJ; Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology and Risk Analysis, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of dairy science [J Dairy Sci] 2024 Oct; Vol. 107 (10), pp. 8464-8478. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 06.
DOI:	10.3168/jds.2023-24590
Abstrakt:	Mycoplasmosis (due to infection with Mycoplasma bovis) is a serious disease of beef and dairy cattle that can adversely affect health, welfare, and productivity. Mycoplasmosis can lead to a range of often severe, clinical presentations. Mycoplasma bovis infection can present either clinically or subclinically, with the potential for recrudescence of shedding in association with stressful periods. Infection can be maintained within herds because of intermittent shedding. Mycoplasma bovis is recognized as poorly responsive to treatment, which presents a major challenge for control in infected herds. Given this, particular focus is needed on biosecurity measures to prevent introduction into uninfected herds in the first place. A robust and reliable laboratory test for surveillance is important for both herd-level prevention and control. The objective of this study was to estimate the sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) of 3 diagnostic tests (1 PCR and 2 ELISA tests) on bulk tank milk (BTM), for the herd-level detection of M. bovis using Bayesian latent class analysis (BLCA). In autumn 2018, BTM samples from 11,807 herds, covering the majority of the main dairy regions in Ireland had been submitted to the Department of Agriculture testing laboratory for routine surveillance and were made available for study. A stratified random sample approach was used to select a cohort of herds for testing from this larger sample set. A final study population of 728 herds had BTM samples analyzed using a Bio-X ELISA (ELISA 1), an IDvet ELISA (ELISA 2) and a PCR test. A BLCA was conducted to estimate the Se and Sp of the 3 diagnostic tests applied to BTM for the detection of herd-level infection. An overall latent class analysis was conducted on all herds within a single population (a 3-test, 1-population model). The herds were also split into 2 populations based on herd size (small herds had <82 cattle; a 3-test, 2-population model) and separately into 3 regions in Ireland (Leinster, Munster, and Connacht/Ulster; a 3-test, 3-population model). The latent variable of interest was the herd-level M. bovis infection status. In total, 363/728 (50%) were large herds, 7 (1.0%) were positive on PCR, 88 (12%) positive on ELISA 1, and 406 (56%) positive on ELISA 2. Based on the 2-population model, the Se (95% Bayesian credible interval [BCI] was 0.03 (upper and lower limits: 0.02, 0.05), 0.22 (0.18, 0.27), and 0.94 (0.88, 0.98) for PCR, ELISA 1, and ELISA 2, respectively. The Sp (95% BCI) was 0.99 (0.99, 1.0), 0.97 (0.95, 0.99), and 0.92 (0.86, 0.97) for PCR, ELISA 1, and ELISA 2, respectively. The herd-level true prevalence was estimated at 0.43 (BCI 0.35, 0.5) for smaller herds. The true prevalence was estimated at 0.62 (BCI 0.55, 0.69) for larger herds. The true prevalence was estimated at 0.56 (BCI 0.49, 0.463) in the 1-population model. For the 3-population model, the Se (95% BCI) was 0.03 (0.02, 0.05), 0.24 (0.18, 0.29), and 0.95 (0.9, 0.98) for PCR, ELISA 1, and ELISA 2 respectively. The Sp (95% BCI) was 0.99 (0.99, 1.0), 0.98 (0.96, 0.99), and 0.88 (0.79, 0.95) for PCR, ELISA 1 and ELISA 2, respectively. The herd-level true prevalence (95% BCI) was estimated at 0.65 (0.56, 0.73), 0.38 (0.28, 0.46), and 0.53 (0.4, 0.65) for populations 1, 2, and 3 respectively. Across all 3 models, the range in true prevalence was 38% to 65% of Irish dairy herds infected with M. bovis. The operating characteristics vary substantially between tests. The IDvet ELISA had a relatively high Se (the highest Se of the 3 tests studied) but it was estimated at 0.95 at its highest in 3-test, 3-population model. This test may be an appropriate test for herd-level screening or prevalence estimation within the context of the endemically infected Irish dairy cattle population. Further work is required to optimize this test and its interpretation when applied at herd-level to offset concerns related to the lower than optimal test Sp. (The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the American Dairy Science Association®. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).)
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