Research Article

Bayesian Estimation of the True Prevalence and of the Diagnostic Test Sensitivity and Specificity of Enteropathogenic Yersinia in Finnish Pig Serum Samples

Table 1

List of papers selected from the systematic review to obtain the prior estimates of pig and herd level prevalence of enteropathogenic Yersinia in Finland and the list of papers from the systematic review that were excluded.

AuthorReferenceSample (location)CountryNumber of positive pigs/number of sampled pigs (%)

Included
 Vilar et al. [21]Foodborne Pathog. Dis., 2013, 10: 595–602Serum and faeces (farm)Finland182/334
 Virtanen et al. [14]Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 2012, 78: 3000–3003Serum and faeces (farm)Finland31/65
 Von Altrock et al. [11]Berl. Munch. Tierarztl. Wochenschr., 2006, 119: 391–396Serum and faeces (farm)Germany573/900
 Von Altrock et al. [13]Foodborne Pathog. Dis., 2011, 8: 1249–1255Serum (farm and slaughter)Germany574/900
Not included
 Vanantwerpen et al. [9]Prev. Vet. Med., 2014, 116: 193–196Meat juice (slaughter)Germany4652/7047
 Meemken et al. [22]Prev. Vet. Med., 2014, 113: 589–598Meat juice (slaughter)Germany1805/3323
 Stojek et al. [23]Bull. Vet. Instit. Pulawy., 2010, 54: 309–313Serum (farm)Poland39/226
 Nesbakken et al. [24]Emerg. Infect. Dis., 2007, 13: 1860–1864Serum and faeces (farm)Norway27/1073
 Nesbakken et al. [25]Int. J. Food Microbiol., 2006, 111: 99–104Serum and faeces (farm)Norway163/239
 Nesbakken et al. [26]Int. J. Food Microbiol., 2003, 80: 231–240Serum (slaughter)Norway21/24
 Thibodeau et al. [27]Vet. Microbiol., 2001, 82: 249–259Serum and faeces (slaughter)Canada192/291
 Skjerve et al. [28]Int. J. Food Microbiol., 1998, 45: 195–203Serum (slaughter)Norway1774/4029