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ArticleVeterinary sciences2021

Evaluation of Infrared Thermography for the Detection of Footrot and White Line Disease Lesions in Dairy Sheep.

Athanasios I Gelasakis, Aphrodite I Kalogianni, Marios Moschovas, Eirini Tsimpouri, Theodoros Pnevmatikos, Ioannis Bossis, Georgios Arsenos, Panagiotis Simitzis

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Article in Veterinary sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Athanasios I GelasakisLaboratory of Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals, Department of Animal Science, School of Animal Biosciences, Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Iera Odos 75 str., 11855 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-1144-3918
Aphrodite I KalogianniLaboratory of Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals, Department of Animal Science, School of Animal Biosciences, Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Iera Odos 75 str., 11855 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1462-7432
Marios MoschovasLaboratory of Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals, Department of Animal Science, School of Animal Biosciences, Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Iera Odos 75 str., 11855 Athens, Greece.
Eirini TsimpouriLaboratory of Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals, Department of Animal Science, School of Animal Biosciences, Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Iera Odos 75 str., 11855 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0175-4491
Theodoros PnevmatikosLaboratory of Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals, Department of Animal Science, School of Animal Biosciences, Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Iera Odos 75 str., 11855 Athens, Greece.
Ioannis BossisLaboratory of Animal Husbandry, Department of Agricultural Sciences, School of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources, University Campus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Georgios ArsenosLaboratory of Animal Husbandry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University Campus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3224-5128
Panagiotis SimitzisLaboratory of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Department of Animal Science, School of Animal Biosciences, Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Iera Odos 75 str., 11855 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1450-4037
Agricultural University of Athens · GRAristotle University of Thessaloniki · GR

Funding

Greece and the European Union MIS5048473
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to investigate temperature distribution at the sheep hoof and evaluate the reliability and diagnostic performance of infrared thermography (IRT) for the detection of footrot and white line disease (WLD) lesions in intensively reared dairy sheep. Hoof lesions were clinically assessed, and IRT was used to measure temperature distribution on hoof superficial tissue in 600 multiparous ewes. Binary regression models were developed and validated, and receiver operating characteristic curves were estimated to assess the predictive value and diagnostic performance of IRT for the detection of hoof lesions. The most sensitive prediction model for the detection of IFR was based on the difference between ambient and hoof heel temperature (sensitivity: 83.3%, specificity: 47.8%, and threshold value: 6.5 °C), whereas the most specific prediction model was based on the difference between ambient and coronary band temperature (sensitivity: 51.9%, specificity: 79.7%, and threshold value: 11.3 °C). In the case of WLD, the diagnostic performance of IRT had limited predictive value. IRT could be a useful tool for hoof health screening in dairy sheep. However, it must be cautiously adapted in cases where environmental, operating, and operator variables are not effectively controlled.

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binary regression analysisdairy sheepfoot-related lamenessfootrotinfrared thermographypoint-of-care diagnosticsROC curvessensitivityspecificitywhite line disease

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PMID34679049
PMCPMC8541259
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