Quantifying the enzootic leukosis virus threat: how prevalent is the natural infection in Crioulo Lageano cattle in southern Brazil?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Enzootic Bovine Leukosis (EBL), is infectious disease affecting especially older animals, although animals of all ages can be infected with the Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV). Crioula Lageana is a locally adapted, rustic and long-lived bovine breed, important as a genetic resource. However, little is known about its health status, making it difficult to preserve the breed. In this sense, this study aims to assess the prevalence of EBL/BLV in different animal categories of Crioula Lageana cattle. Then, blood samples were collected from 308 animals from different categories: bulls, cows, heifers and male and female calves, whereby these animals were derived from six farms located in nuclei of in situ conservation for the Crioula Lageana breed in Planalto Serrano de Santa Catarina, Brazil and the blood samples were analyzed with hemogram, ELISA and PCR tests. There was a prevalence of 6.82% (21/308) for the ELISA test and 36.69% (113/308) for the PCR technique. There was no association between categories and natural infection or BLV positivity in PCR by the Chi-square test (P<0.05). Leukocytosis with lymphocytosis was observed in 11% (18/113) of PCR-positive animals. None of the evaluated animals presented bovine lymphosarcoma. We conclude that the BLV is present in all animal categories of the Crioula Lageana cattle, requiring the establishment of prevention and control measures to avoid the spread of the disease within herds.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".