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. 2001 Mar 31;42(Suppl 1):S17. doi: 10.1186/1751-0147-42-S1-S17

Table 2.

Outputs of the simulations (10,000 iterations) of the Paratuberculosis survey model with 6000 of 24,218 dairy herds tested.

Percentiles
Variable Minimum 5th 50th 95th Maximum
Number of infected herds in population 20 37 48 60 75
Number of infected herds tested 2 7 12 18 26
Number of animals tested/herd 1 5 12 24 135
Number of infected animals/herd tested 1 1 1 2 10
Number of infected animals/herd detected 0 0 1 1 8
Number of infected herds detected 0 2 6 11 21
Herd sensitivity (1 positive) 0% 18% 50.5% 83% 100%
Herd specificity (1 positive) 91.8% 92.4% 93.0% 93.5% 94.2%
Number of non-infected herds tested 5974 5982 5988 5993 5998
Number of non-infected animals tested 71688 71784 71856 71916 71976
Number of false positive herds 339 381 413 445 486
False positive:true positive ratio 18 36 70 215 486
Predictive value of positive herd test 0.03% 0.14% 0.51% 4.04% 99.5%
Predictive value of negative herd test 99.2% 99.7% 99.8% 99.9% 99.99%
Cost/infected herd detected (NOK) 256,240 488,822 899,791 2,710,965 5,448,500