A randomized control trial investigating the effectiveness of a commercial pneumonia vaccine (part I): Pre-weaned lambs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The objective of this controlled vaccine field trial was to determine the effectiveness of a commercial bacterin in increasing colostral immunity to reduce the risk of bacterial pneumonia in pre-weaned lambs in a commercial sheep operation. Pregnant ewes were randomly allocated to vaccination group (Ovipast™ Plus bacterin, n = 1807; unvaccinated, n = 1812). Ewe vaccination did not significantly (P > 0.05) improve lamb pneumonia treatment rates, crude or pneumonia specific mortality rates, or body weight gain . Interestingly, as birth weight increased in lambs from vaccinated ewes, they gained significantly more than lambs from unvaccinated ewes (P = 0.01). There was no difference in culture results from pneumonic lung samples for either Mannheimia haemolytica (P = 0.89) or Bibersteinia trehalosi (P = 1.00) between lambs from vaccinated and unvaccinated ewes. The results of this study suggest that there was no animal health and welfare benefit from vaccinating ewes with the Ovipast™ Plus bacterin prior to parturition to boost colostral immunity and improve health and growth in their lambs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".