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. 2015 Aug 8;11:190. doi: 10.1186/s12917-015-0512-8

Table 2.

Distributions of the mean effective sensitivity (MES) of the ID Screen® Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis-specific antibody ELISA

Population Mean Min P5 Q1 Median Q3 P95 Max
1 0.32 0.001 0.08 0.30 0.34 0.38 0.49 0.79
2 0.57 0.27 0.32 0.57 0.60 0.61 0.65 0.79
3 0.60 0.27 0.56 0.58 0.60 0.61 0.64 0.71
4 0.27 0.001 0.01 0.23 0.30 0.34 0.45 0.79
5 0.35 0.001 0.19 0.29 0.33 0.38 0.60 0.79
6 0.64 0.28 0.46 0.61 0.65 0.69 0.75 0.79

Dairy herds: Group 1 = all cattle; Group 2 = all cattle > 2 years; Group 3 = all cattle above 2 years of age in the control programme

Non-dairy herds: Group 4 = all cattle in herds with at least 25 animals; Group 5 = all cattle in herds with at least 25 animals that were above 2 years of age; Group 6 = all cattle at least 2 years of age in herds with more than 25 animals that were at least 2 years of age