Table 4 Number of animals showing a seroconversion and total number of animals examined, in the following months after the initial detection of super-spreaders, according to the strategy used by farmers
From: Real-time PCR on skin biopsies for super-spreaders’ detection in bovine besnoitiosis
Strategy | Farm | Time after the initial detection of super-spreaders | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6 months | 12 months | 18 months | 24 months | 36 months | ||
Rapid culling of super-spreaders | A | 1/30 | 2/30 | 3/54 | 0/61 | |
D | 0/48 | 6/14 | ||||
H | 1/23 | |||||
Conservation of super-spreaders in the farm | B | 15/30 | 5/10 | |||
C | 12/14 | |||||