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Case definition terminology for paratuberculosis (Johne’s disease)

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Veterinary Research, November 2017
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Title
Case definition terminology for paratuberculosis (Johne’s disease)
Published in
BMC Veterinary Research, November 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12917-017-1254-6
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Authors

R. J. Whittington, D. J. Begg, K. de Silva, A. C. Purdie, N. K. Dhand, K. M. Plain

Abstract

Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) is an economically significant condition caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis. However, difficulties in diagnosis and classification of individual animals with the condition have hampered research and impeded efforts to halt its progressive spread in the global livestock industry. Descriptive terms applied to individual animals and herds such as exposed, infected, diseased, clinical, sub-clinical, infectious and resistant need to be defined so that they can be incorporated consistently into well-understood and reproducible case definitions. These allow for consistent classification of individuals in a population for the purposes of analysis based on accurate counts. The outputs might include the incidence of cases, frequency distributions of the number of cases by age class or more sophisticated analyses involving statistical comparisons of immune responses in vaccine development studies, or gene frequencies or expression data from cases and controls in genomic investigations. It is necessary to have agreed definitions in order to be able to make valid comparisons and meta-analyses of experiments conducted over time by a given researcher, in different laboratories, by different researchers, and in different countries. In this paper, terms are applied systematically in an hierarchical flow chart to enable classification of individual animals. We propose descriptive terms for different stages in the pathogenesis of paratuberculosis to enable their use in different types of studies and to enable an independent assessment of the extent to which accepted definitions for stages of disease have been applied consistently in any given study. This will assist in the general interpretation of data between studies, and will facilitate future meta-analyses.

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Unknown 106 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 15%
Student > Master 13 12%
Student > Bachelor 12 11%
Other 9 8%
Other 20 19%
Unknown 17 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 29 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 3%
Other 11 10%
Unknown 25 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 June 2019.
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#14,084,634
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#1,022
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#177,240
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Veterinary Research
#35
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