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In silico Comparison of test-and-cull protocols for bovine tuberculosis control in France

Ladreyt Héléna, Saccareau Mathilde, Courcoul Aurélie, Durand Benoit. 2018. In silico Comparison of test-and-cull protocols for bovine tuberculosis control in France. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 5:265, 12 p.

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Quartile : Q1, Sujet : VETERINARY SCIENCES

Résumé : Whole depopulation of cattle herds (WHD) confirmed infected by bovine tuberculosis (bTB) has led since the 1950s to a drop of herd incidence in France below 0.1% in 2000, justifying the current officially bTB free (OTF) status of the country. However, this protocol is expensive, ethically questionable, and difficult for breeders to accept because the number of confirmed animals in an infected herd is often very low. A test-and-cull protocol combining at least three screening sessions of the entire herd followed by the slaughter of all the non-negative animals has been used for some years. The aim of this work was to evaluate in silico the epidemiological effectiveness, the public costs and the acceptability to farmers of this test-and-cull protocol as well as of several ones. A stochastic compartmental model of within-herd bTB spread was used. Six test-and-cull protocols were compared: two versions of the official protocol and four alternatives with varying delays between screenings, and varying tests used. Protocols were simulated for an average French beef herd, and compared to WHD. Three key indicators were computed: the failure probability of the protocol (a failure being defined as an herd recovering its OTF status recovery while still infected, indicator of epidemiological effectiveness), its overall public cost and the percentage of farmers who would have dropped it to switch to WHD (indicator of acceptability to farmers). Failure probability ranged from 1.4 to 12.4% and was null (by definition) for WHD. The median cost varied between 2.7 and 78 K€ for the test-and-cull protocols, vs. 120 K€ for WHD. The percentage of dropout ranged from 7.8 to 22%. The optimal tradeoff between epidemiological effectiveness, public costs, and acceptability to farmers was obtained for protocols with an increased delay (6 months instead of 2 in the currently used protocol) between the last two screening sessions, with either 3 or 2 screening sessions. This study may help improving the official test-and-cull protocol applied in France under European Union regulation, by suggesting alternative protocols, very effective, cheaper, and more acceptable than WHD.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : contrôle de maladies, destruction d'animaux, épidémiologie, abattage d'animaux, bovin, politique sanitaire

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : France

Mots-clés complémentaires : Tuberculose bovine

Mots-clés libres : Bovine tuberculosis, Dynamic modeling, Cattle herd, Disease control, Test-and-cull protocol

Classification Agris : L73 - Maladies des animaux

Champ stratégique Cirad : Axe 4 (2014-2018) - Santé des animaux et des plantes

Auteurs et affiliations

  • Ladreyt Héléna, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR ASTRE (KHM)
  • Saccareau Mathilde, Institut Pasteur (FRA)
  • Courcoul Aurélie, Université Paris-Est (FRA)
  • Durand Benoit, ANSES (FRA) - auteur correspondant

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/599571/)

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