Methodology for the assessment of brucellosis management practices and its vaccination campaign: example in two Argentine districts

Table 1 Farmers’ questionnaire

Items	Answers		Experts’ opinion		Weighting
Items	Ideal	Not ideal	Average [A]	CV	Weighted Factor [B]
Identification of all vaccinated females	Yes	No	6.4	0.699	0.064
Identification of females unvaccinated due to their age (< 3 months)	Yes	No	3.4	0.609	0.034
Coverage per farm	95%–100%	<95%	16.4	0.372	0.164
Existence of reproductive records in the farm	Yes	No	4.0	0.306	0.040
Diagnostic of abortions, placental retentions or no-pregnancy	Yes	No	8.8	0.478	0.088
Isolation of animals with reproductive disorders consistent with brucellosis	Yes	No	10.2	0.497	0.102
Sale of animals with clinical signs of brucellosis	Yes	No	12.0	0.343	0.120
Destination of the animals sold with clinical signs of brucellosis	Slaughterhouse	Other destination	3.6	1.168	0.036
Purchase of cattle from Officially Brucellosis-Free farms	Yes	No	11.0	0.497	0.110
At purchase: brucellosis serological testing of females >18 months and males 6 months	Yes	No	11.0	0.203	0.110
Isolation of purchased cattle	Yes	No	5.6	0.763	0.056
Isolation of calving cows	Yes	No	5.6	0.508	0.056
Isolation of primiparous cows	Yes	No	2.0	1.514	0.020

Legend: CV = coefficient of variation [A] Average of points distributed by the experts, per item. [B] Weighted factor per item. This value was obtained after dividing [A] by the total of points distributed by each expert (100 points). The sum of all weighted items equals 1
List of items, possible answers, experts’ opinion and weighting

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