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| Title |
Implementation of an extended ZINB model in the study of low levels of natural gastrointestinal nematode infections in adult sheep
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| Published in |
BMC Veterinary Research, June 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12917-016-0723-7 |
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| Authors |
M. Atlija, J. M. Prada, B. Gutiérrez-Gil, F. A. Rojo-Vázquez, M. J. Stear, J. J. Arranz, M. Martínez-Valladares |
| Abstract |
In this study, two traits related with resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) were measured in 529 adult sheep: faecal egg count (FEC) and activity of immunoglobulin A in plasma (IgA). In dry years, FEC can be very low in semi-extensive systems, such as the one studied here, which makes identifying animals that are resistant or susceptible to infection a difficult task. A zero inflated negative binomial model (ZINB) model was used to calculate the extent of zero inflation for FEC; the model was extended to include information from the IgA responses. In this dataset, 64 % of animals had zero FEC while the ZINB model suggested that 38 % of sheep had not been recently infected with GIN. Therefore 26 % of sheep were predicted to be infected animals with egg counts that were zero or below the detection limit and likely to be relatively resistant to nematode infection. IgA activities of all animals were then used to decide which of the sheep with zero egg counts had been exposed and which sheep had not been recently exposed. Animals with zero FEC and high IgA activity were considered resistant while animals with zero FEC and low IgA activity were considered as not recently infected. For the animals considered as exposed to the infection, the correlations among the studied traits were estimated, and the influence of these traits on the discrimination between unexposed and infected animals was assessed. The model presented here improved the detection of infected animals with zero FEC. The correlations calculated here will be useful in the development of a reliable index of GIN resistance that could be of assistance for the study of host resistance in studies based on natural infection, especially in adult sheep, and also the design of breeding programs aimed at increasing resistance to parasites. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 5 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 88% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 20 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 5 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 10% |
| Other | 2 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 10% |
| Other | 5 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 40% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 3 | 15% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 5% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 6 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 22 October 2021.
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#5,904,544
of 22,877,793 outputs
Outputs from BMC Veterinary Research
#408
of 3,052 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#95,759
of 345,197 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Veterinary Research
#8
of 43 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 3,052 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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