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Table 3 Model outputs considered in the sensitivity analysis

From: Modelling the effects of antimicrobial metaphylaxis and pen size on bovine respiratory disease in high and low risk fattening cattle

Output name

Description

% collective

Proportion of pens where a collective treatment was triggered during the fattening period

First detection

Date of first BRD case detection

Nb deaths

Number of deaths during the whole fattening period, per 100 animals

Nb doses

Number of antimicrobial doses used during the whole period, per 100 animals

Peak day

Date of the peak of severe clinical cases during the whole period

Peak height

Maximum number of animals with severe clinical cases at the same time during the whole period

  1. Outputs values are considered for a period of 100 days on feed and 500 stochasticreplicated for large = pen scenarios, 5000 for small-pen ones.