Table 3.

Results of zero-inflated negative binomial models for total estimated cases of tick-borne diseases diagnosed in the last two years by veterinary professionals in Illinois. Results in italics were significant at the p < 0.1 level.

		Any Training		Number of Ticks of Concern		Test Decision		Any Disease Concern		Years Since Training		Years in Practice		Combined
		Count	Logit	Count	Logit	Count	Logit	Count	Logit	Count	Logit	Count	Logit	Count	Logit
Intercept		2.40	−3.52	1.16	1.74	3.96	−8.88	−0.92	−9.12	3.28	0.16	3.40	−0.45	−0.83	−36.1
Any tick training		1.17	−6.04
Number of tick species of concern				0.63	−3.66									0.24	6.3
When to Test (routine is base)	TBD suspect					−1.22	5.85							−1.26	−2.05
	Rule out TBD					−1.58	5.34							−1.21	21.11
Tick-borne disease is a concern								4.40	−2.92					3.95	−11.39
Years since tick training (none is base)	Any training									0.25	−2.67
	>10									−1.34	−1.45
	>5									−0.54	1.36
Years in practice (<10 is base)	>10											−0.38	−3.10
	>20											0.28	2.39
AICc		256.89		269.70				396.35		458.01		462.27		385.6