WildBoarTb: Wild boar tuberculosis-like lesions dataset

In romunov/AED: Package Accompanying 'Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R'

Description

Presence or absence of tuberculosis in wild boar (Sus scrofa) from south central Spain

Usage

data("WildBoarTb")

Details

Vicente et al. (2006) analyzed the distribution on tuberculosis-like lesions in wild boar (Sus scrofa) for potential importance of persistence of tuberculosis in south central Spain. Data came from harvested animals. Tuberculosis (Tb) is a zoonosis that can jump from non-human to human animal, which makes the disease interesting to study for its economical and public health impacts.

The dataset comes with variables:

• Tb: An integer denoting presence (1) or absence (0) of tuberculosis in an animal

• sex: Sex of the animal harvested

• age_class: Age class of the animal based on tooth eruption patterns. Boars less than 7 months old were classified as piglets, boars between 7 and 12 months were classified as weaners, those between 12 and 24 months as juveniles, and those more than 2 years old as adults.

• length_ct: Head-body length of the animal in cm, where CT is Spanish abbreviation for cabeza-tronco.

References

Vicente J, Höfle U, Garrido JM, Fernández-de-Mera IG, Juste R, Barralb M, Gortazar C. 2006. Wild boar and red deer display high prevalences of tuberculosis-like lesions in Spain. Veterinary research 37: 107-119.

Zuur et al. 2009. Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R. Springer. ISBN: 978-0-387-87457-9.

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