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Table 5 Ability to detect PRRSV RNA after pooling

From: Monitoring PRRSV-1 in suckling piglets in an endemic herd using reverse transcriptase quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction: comparison of the rate of detection in serum and oral fluid samples and evaluation of pooling

 

Number of pools

 

Positive

With at least one positive sample

PRRSV RNA detection rate

95% Confidence Interval

Serum

8

12

67%

35–90

cOF

7

12

58%

28–85

  1. For each sampling method, the reference was the presence of at least one positive sample in the pool