10 SICTT test-types – Temporal and seasonal trends in bovine herds and bovine tuberculosis breakdowns in Ireland (2008-current)

10.1 All test-types (herd and animal-level SICTTs)

Figure 10.1: The proportion of all SICTTs by all test-types.

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10.1.1 Herd vs animal level test-types

Many SICTT are just animal-level tests and are not associated with a full herd test (e.g., a pre-movement test). We assigned each test-type to a herd or animal level test:

Table 10.1: SICTT by herd or animal-level test.

Herd	Animal
1; Round test	3; Inconclusive reactor re-test
2; New Herd Special Check Test (S.C.T.)	5D; Factory return (Animal/herd) obsolete
4; Reactor re-test	5G; Forward trace S.C.T. (animal)
5A; Classification related S.C.T.	5H; Miscellaneous (animal) S.C.T.
5B; Associated to a reactor herd S.C.T.	6; Private test
5C; High incidence Area/DED and Miscellaneous C.T. (herd)
5E; OTF regain status S.C.T.
5F; Backward trace S.C.T. (herd)
7A; Post depopulation C.T.
7B; Post de-restriction C.T.
8; Contiguous herd test
9A; Factory lesion test
10A; Balance of herd test (factory lesion)
10B; Balance of herd test (private test)
10C; Balance of herd test (inc retest)
10D; Balance of herd test (fwd trace S.C.T.)

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Figure 10.2: The proportion of all SICTTs by whether it was an animal or herd-level SICTT.

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repeat above plots by herd-level only SICTTs (increase in animal level tests skewing true )

10.1.2 All test-types (herd-level SICTT only)

Figure 10.3: The proportion of all SICTTs by all test-types.

And table format:

Table 10.2: Proportion of herd-level SICTTs by all herd-level test-types (presented as %)

Test type	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
10A; Balance of herd test (factory lesion)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
10B; Balance of herd test (private test)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
10C; Balance of herd test (inc retest)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
10D; Balance of herd test (fwd trace S.C.T.)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1; Round test	64.6	67.7	70.8	72.9	73.1	75.3	75.4	76.3	77.2	76.5	74.8	73.6	71.3	69.6	71.9	70.3	67.6	65.7
2; New Herd Special Check Test (S.C.T.)	0.9	1.1	1.0	1.3	1.6	1.4	1.2	2.0	1.5	1.3	1.1	0.9	1.2	1.5	1.0	1.0	0.8	0.7
4; Reactor re-test	10.2	9.1	8.2	7.4	7.2	6.7	6.6	5.9	5.7	5.8	6.0	6.2	7.2	7.3	7.3	8.0	9.5	10.9
5A; Classification related S.C.T.	3.2	3.3	3.7	3.5	3.1	2.9	2.7	2.7	2.4	2.2	1.9	2.2	2.0	2.3	2.7	2.4	2.6	2.4
5B; Associated to a reactor herd S.C.T.	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
5C; High incidence Area/DED and Miscellaneous C.T. (herd)	3.6	3.0	1.8	1.2	1.0	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.3	0.9	1.6	3.4	3.0	4.3	3.0	3.1	3.3	3.3
5E; OTF regain status S.C.T.	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.8	0.7
5F; Backward trace S.C.T. (herd)	0.2	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.8	0.9	1.0	1.2	1.3	1.4
7A; Post depopulation C.T.	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
7B; Post de-restriction C.T.	4.3	4.3	3.7	3.5	3.1	3.1	2.9	2.8	2.6	2.0	2.1	2.2	2.3	2.7	2.7	2.5	2.8	3.5
8; Contiguous herd test	10.9	8.9	8.1	7.8	8.5	7.4	8.0	7.1	7.4	9.1	10.3	9.5	10.6	9.9	8.7	9.5	10.0	10.1
9A; Factory lesion test	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.1	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	1.0	1.0	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.2