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Table 3 Mean estimated day of virus introduction into the barn, across 100 simulated testing observations

From: Surveillance of low pathogenic novel H7N9 avian influenza in commercial poultry barns: detection of outbreaks and estimation of virus introduction time

Day of entry

R 0

Weekly sampling

2 weekly sampling

4 weekly sampling

Day 0

    
 

10

0.0 (-0.6, 0.5)

0.1 (-0.7, 0.7)

0.0 (-2.3, 1.7)

 

7

0.0 (-0.7, 0.6)

0.0 (-1.1, 0.9)

-0.1 (-1.7, 1.5)

 

5

0.0 (-0.80, 0.9)

-0.3 (-1.8, 1.1)

-1.1 (-3.0, 1.1)

 

3

0.1 (-1.4, 1.4)

0.0 (-2.3, 1.8)

-0.2 (-2.8, 2.5)

 

3 2nd cluster

NA

NA

37.6 (26.7 - 40.0)

Day 7

    
 

10

7.0 (6.3, 7.5)

7.3 (6.0, 8.5)

7.2 (5.8, 8.6)

 

7

7.0 (6.4, 7.6)

6.0 (4.9, 7.3)

2.6 (1.0, 4.5)

 

5

7.0 (6.1, 7.9)

7.0 (5.9, 7.9)

7.2 (5.3, 8.8)

 

3

6.9 (5.3, 8.3)

7.0 (5.5, 9.0)

6.6 (4.0, 9.5)

 

3 2nd cluster

NA

NA

21.6 (17.1, 25.3)

Day 20

    
 

10

20.0 (19.4, 20.4)

20.2 (18.9, 21.5)

18.3 (16.0, 21.0)

 

10 2nd cluster

NA

NA

46.6 (44.1, 50.0)

 

7

20.0 (19.4, 20.9)

19.1 (17.8, 20.3)

18.0 (15.3, 21.3)

 

7 2nd cluster

NA

NA

43.3 (40.5, 46.0)

 

5

20.0 (18.9, 20.7)

20.0 (19.0, 20.9)

19.5 (18.1, 20.8)

 

5 2nd cluster

NA

NA

34.5 (32.6, 36.6)

 

3

20.1 (18.1, 22.2)

20.1 (17.7, 23.2)

19.7 (15.4, 23.4)

Day 40

    
 

10

40.0 (39.4, 40.7)

40.0 (39.9, 40.8)

36.0 (34.7, 37.1)

 

10 2nd cluster

NA

NA

-9.56 (-10.0, -8.5)

 

7

39.8 (38.1, 42.0)

40.0 (38.5, 41.5)

40.0 (38.5, 41.4)

 

5

40.0 (36.7, 42.8)

39.7 (36.5, 42.8)

40.1 (36.7, 45.2)

 

5 2nd cluster

NA

NA

13.3 (11.6, 15.0)

 

3

37.6 (30.2, 43.7)

35.0 (28.2, 42.7)

33.5 (28.0, 40.8)

  1. Mean lower and upper 95% confidence intervals for each estimate are indicated in brackets. The second optima that was observed with reduced sampling is referred to as 2nd cluster.