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. 2018 Mar 6;5:41. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2018.00041

Table 5.

Description of Internal, External biosecurity score, their respective subcategory scores, and the total biosecurity scores for a sample of fattening and breeding pig farms in Great Britain visited in 2015–2016.

Fattening pig farms (n = 40)c
Breeding pig farms (n = 28)d
Mean SD Median Min Max Mean SD Median Min Max
A. Purchase of animals and semena 92.1 9.31 95.7 72.8 99.8 90.8 10.6 96.7 73 99.8
B. Transport of animals, removal of manure/dead animalsa 76.4 11.3 78.3 41.6 95.7 77.3 10.6 78.7 54 95.7
C. Feed, water and equipment supplya 55.9 21.8 53.6 14.3 100 55.0 23.4 51.8 14 100
D. Personnel and visitorsa 63.5 19.9 64.7 14.7 100 66.3 20.8 67.6 18 100
E. Vermin/bird controla 67.3 21.5 72.8 27.3 100 61.4 21.8 63.7 27 100
F. Environment and regiona 85.9 19.3 85 10 100 88.2 15.2 90.0 30 100
External biosecurity score 74.5 7.89 74.8 54.5 90.5 74.4 6.95 74.8 55 84.5
G. Disease managementb 80.3 20.7 80 0 100 80.0 21.8 80.0 0 100
H. Farrowing periodb 27.9 26.4 33.9 0 78.5 43.1 18.4 39.3 0 67.8
I. Nurseryb 43.2 32 53.6 0 89.3 57.2 23.8 60.7 0 89.3
J. Fattening pigsb 56.7 36.3 78.5 0 100 47.4 36.6 42.8 0 100
K. Measures between compartments and the use of equipmentb 49.3 18.3 46.4 14.3 100 45.6 15.4 46.4 17.9 85.7
L. Cleaning and disinfectionb 66.8 24.5 72.5 0 100 59.2 24.1 61.3 0 95.0
Internal biosecurity score 60.5 14.4 59.6 25.7 89.9 55.9 12.0 57.1 29.0 87.0
Total biosecurity score 67.5 10 68.3 40.1 89.5 65.1 8.15 65.4 43.8 83.8

aExternal biosecurity subcategories.

bInternal biosecurity subcategories.

cAll farms having fattening pigs in our initial sample.

dAll farms having breeding pigs in our initial sample.