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Table 5 Summary of adapted Hudson and Turner Scores in Sentinels

From: Evaluation of new generation macrolides for the treatment and metaphylaxis of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in cattle experimentally infected with Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides

Study Site

Kenya (VSRI)

Zambia (CVRI)

Treatment

Sentinel Saline

Sentinel Tulathromycin

Sentinel Gamithromycin

Sentinel Oxytetracycline

Sentinel Saline

Sentinel Tulathromycin

Sentinel Gamithromycin

Sentinel Oxytetracycline

Number of Cattle

5

5

5

5

5

4

4

5

Mean serology score (s.d.)

0.6 (1.3)

0

0

0

0.80 (1.10)

0.75 (1.50)

0

0

Range

0–3

0

0

0

0–2

0–3

0

0

Mean clinical scorea (s.d.)

0.4 (0.9)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Range

0–2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Mean post-mortem scoreb (s.d.)

2.4 (5.4)

0

0

0

3.20 (4.38)

0

0

0

Range

0–12

0

0

0

0–8

0

0

0

Mean adapted Hudson & Turner Score (s.d.)

1.4 (3.1)

0

0

0

4.00 (4.69)

0.75 (1.50)

0

0

Range

0–7

0

0

0

0–10

0–3

0

0

  1. a Clinical score calculated as a combination of pyrexia and mortality; b Lesion score calculated as a combination of acute/subacute or chronic lung lesions (type and size) and tissue isolation of Mycoplasma