State-of-the-art review of goat TSE in the European Union, with special emphasis on PRNP genetics and epidemiology

Gabriele Vaccari; Cynthia H. Panagiotidis; Cristina Acin; Simone Peletto; Francis Barillet; Pierluigi Acutis; Alex Bossers; Jan Langeveld; Lucien Van Keulen; Theodoros Sklaviadis; Juan J. Badiola; Olivier Andreéoletti; Martin H. Groschup; Umberto Agrimi; James Foster; Wilfred Goldmann

doi:doi:10.1051/vetres/2009031

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Volume 40 / No 5 (September-October 2009)

Vet. Res., 40 5 (2009) 48

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Table III.

Population size and TSE testing information for goats from the 27 member states of the European Union.

Member state	Goat population³^–⁶ (× 1 000)	TSE tests performed⁸ (2002–2007)	Positive cases reported⁸ (2002–2007)	Prevalence^* of TSE (95% CI)
BE	26	3 268	0	0.0 (0.0–14.1)
BG	495.5	8 029	0	0.0 (0.0–5.3)
CZ	16.6	852	0	0.0 (0.0–74.5)
DK	22	6 363	0	0.0 (0.0–8.3)
DE	180	25 477	0	0.0 (0.0–2.8)
EE	4.0	133	0	0.0 (0.0–271.0)
IE	7.3	446	0	0.0 (0.0–82.7)
GR	4 931.0	37 779	153	54.3 (44.5–66.3)
ES	2 891.6	152 501	43	3.0 (2.2–4.1)
FR	1 250.2	555 104	118	1.1 (0.8–1.4)
IT	920.0	93 539	49	4.0 (2.8–5.6)
CY	368.1	18 082	2 807	666.0 (62.0–710.0)
LV	13.0	124	0	0.0 (0.0–293.0)
LT	19.7	131	0	0.0 (0.0–284.0)
LU	3.3	1 326	0	0.0 (0.0–30.8)
HU	67.0	1 284	0	0.0 (0.0–39.7)
MT	6.2	155	0	0.0 (0.0–310.0)
NL	355	71 295	0	0.0 (0.0–0.6)
AT	60.5	6 984	0	0.0 (0.0–8.0)
PL	143.9	884	0	0.0 (0.0–33.8)
PT	513.5	31 265	0	0.0 (0.0–1.8)
RO	865.1	618	2	16.2 (3.9–89.8)
SI	28.2	2 031	4	28.4 (11.5–72.6)
SK	37.9	269	0	0.0 (0.0–143.0)
FI	5.4	2 533	8	22.5 (9.1–57.6)
SE	3	892	0	0.0 (0.0–61.2)
UK	95	10 818	44	6.8 (3.3–13.2)
Total	13 329	1 032 182	3 228

^*

Prevalence of TSE positives detected by active monitoring of goats for the period 2005–2007, i.e. the number of positive cases detected by active monitoring per 10 000 tests performed are given with their 95% confidence intervals (in parentheses).