Table 5. Total cost (€) of hunting season management based on scenario A (actual hunting management) and scenario B (hunting management using Ag PS test and Ab PS test), considering laboratory or on-field test costs and veterinarians' remunerations.
| Scenarios | Type of tests | Costs of lab/field tests (€) | Cost for positive sample test | Remuneration for veterinarians (€) | Total costs for managing hunting season (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scenario A† | ELISA | 41,296.8‡ | 1,701.9§ | 358,293.2∥ | 542,546.1 |
| IB | 8,625¶ | 1,165** | |||
| PCR | 134,331.3†† | 103.3‡‡ | |||
| Scenario B§§ | Ag PS test | 43,911.6∥∥ | 16,544.7¶¶ | 114,857.5*** | 219,225.4 |
| Ab PS test | 43,911.6††† |
Ag, antigen; Ab, antibody; PS, pen-side; ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; IB, immunoblotting test; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; WB, wild boar.
*The total cost of the hunting season has been calculated as sum veterinarian cost and test cost; Scenario based on †actual hunting management and §§possible hunting management using PS tests; ‡The total cost of the ELISA tests performed during the 2018/2019 WB-HS has been calculated as the product of 3.87 € (cost of single exam) and 10,671 (the number of exams performed); §The total cost of ELISA tests in the animals tested positive using ELISA has been calculated as the product of 3.87 € (cost of single exam) and 549 (the number of animals tested positive; Table 4); ∥The total veterinarian cost in scenario A has been calculated as the product of 28.15 € (cost for testing a single animal) and 12,728 (number of WBs tested); ¶The total cost of the IB tests performed during the 2018/2019 WB-HS has been calculated as the product of 15.00 € (cost of single exam) and 575 (the number of exams performed); **The total cost of IB in the animals tested positive using IB has been calculated the product of 15.00 € (cost of single exam) and 111 (the number of animals tested positive; Table 4); ††The total cost of real-time PCR analyses performed during the 2018/2019 WB-HS has been calculated as the product of 20.66 € (cost of single exam) and 5,603 (the number of exams performed); ‡‡The total cost of real-time PCR in the animals tested positive using real-time PCR has been calculated as the product of 20.66 € (cost of single exam) and 5 (the number of animals tested positive; Table 4); ∥∥,†††The total cost of PS tests (Ag and Ab) has been calculated as the product of 3.45 € (cost of single PS kit) and the number of WBs hypothesised to be tested during the hunting season 2018/2019; ¶¶The total cost for the conventional testing of the animals that showed positive results based on PS tests has been calculated as the sum of §, **, and ‡‡ [(549 × 3.87 €) + (111 × 15.00 €) + (5 × 20.66 €)]; ***The total veterinarian cost in scenario B has been calculated as the product of 9.02 € (cost for testing a single animal) and 12,728 (number of WBs tested).