Corbière, Fabien and Barillet, Francis and Andréoletti, Olivier and Fidelle, Francis and Laphitz-Bordet, Nathalie and Schelcher, François and Joly, Pierre Advanced survival models for risk-factor analysis in scrapie. (2007) Journal of General Virology, 8. 696-705. ISSN 0022-1317
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Abstract
Because of the confounding effects of long incubation duration and flock management, accurate epidemiological studies of scrapie outbreaks are difficult to carry out. In this study, 641 Manech red-faced sheep from six scrapie-affected field flocks in Pyrénées Atlantiques, France, were monitored for clinical scrapie over a 6–9 year period. Over this period, 170 scrapie clinical cases were recorded and half of the culled animals were submitted for post-mortem transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diagnosis to assess their infectious status. Collected data were analysed using a ‘mixture cure model’ approach, which allowed for the discriminating effect of PrP genotype and flock origin on incidence and incubation period. Simulations were performed to evaluate the applicability of such a statistical model to the collected data. As expected, ARR heterozygote sheep were less at risk of becoming infected than ARQ/ARQ individuals and had a greater age at clinical onset. Conversely, when compared with ARQ/ARQ, the VRQ haplotype was associated with an increased infection risk, but not a shorter incubation period. Considering the flock effect, we observed that a high incidence rate was not associated with shorter incubation periods and that the incubation period could be significantly different in flocks harbouring similar infection risks. These results strongly support the conclusion that other parameters, such as the nature of the agent or flock management, could interfere with epidemiological dynamics of the infection in scrapie-affected flocks.
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Institution: | French research institutions > Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - INRA (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse - ENVT (FRANCE) Other partners > Direction Départementale des Services Vétérinaires, Pyrénées Atlantiques - DDSV (FRANCE) Other partners > Centre Départemental d'Elevage Ovin, Pyrénées Atlantiques - CDEO (FRANCE) Other partners > Université de Bordeaux 2 - Victor Segalen (FRANCE) |
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Deposited On: | 13 Mar 2008 15:27 |
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