Veterinary Medicine International

Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 437037, 2 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/437037

Erratum

Erratum to “Apparent Prevalence of Beef Carcasses Contaminated with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Sampled from Danish Slaughter Cattle”

Hisako Okura,1,2 Nils Toft,1,3 Nicola Pozzato,⁴ Annalucia Tondo,⁴ and Søren Saxmose Nielsen¹

¹Department of Large Animal Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegårdsvej 8, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark

²Division of Food Safety and Consumer Policy, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, 1-2-1 Kasumigaseki Chiyodaku, Tokyo 100-8950, Japan

³National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Bülowsvej 27, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark

⁴Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, SCT1, Via San Giacomo 5, 37135 Verona, Italy

Received 15 January 2014; Accepted 4 March 2014; Published 23 March 2014

Copyright © 2014 Hisako Okura et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

A tabulation error appeared in Table 1. The fecal contamination data for Age <2 years and >2 years were incorrectly recorded into the table. Whereas the numbers in the table were transposed incorrectly, the actual statistical analyses remain correct. The revised table is reproduced below.

Table 1: Number and group specific percentage (in brackets) of muscle tissue samples from slaughtered cattle from which Mycobacterium  avium subsp. paratuberculosis DNA was detected by IS900 PCR at threshold cycle value of 36, 37, and 38 by age, type of herd, breed type, and fat code. Positive results were defined in relation to possible fecal contamination to the tissue samples.

Variable
Level
Including samples with fecal contamination
Excluding samples with fecal contamination

Total number in group
PCR threshold cycle value
Total number in group
PCR threshold cycle value

36
37
38
36
37
38

501
20 (4)
28 (6)
42 (8)
385
16 (4)
22 (6)
34 (9)

Age
<2 years
197
4 (1)
7 (2)
11 (4)
159
3 (1)
4 (2)
8 (4)

≥2 years
304
16 (8)
21 (11)
31 (16)
226
13 (8)
18 (11)
26 (16)

Herd type
Dairy
313
17 (5)
22 (7)
30 (10)
235
13 (6)
17 (7)
23 (10)

Beef
115
2 (2)
3 (3)
7 (6)
88
2 (2)
3 (3)
7 (8)

Veal
73
1 (0)
3 (4)
5 (7)
62
1 (2)
2 (3)
4 (6)

Breed group
Dairy
362
18 (5)
26 (7)
35 (10)
278
14 (5)
20 (7)
27 (10)

Beef
76
1 (1)
1 (1)
4 (5)
62
1 (2)
1 (2)
4 (6)

Cross
63
1 (2)
1 (2)
3 (5)
45
1 (2)
1 (2)
3 (7)

Fat code
1
66
1 (2)
3 (5)
8 (12)
56
1 (2)
3 (5)
7 (13)

2
162
9 (6)
14 (9)
15 (9)
125
7 (6)
10 (8)
11 (9)

≥3
272
10 (4)
11 (4)
19 (7)
203
8 (4)
9 (4)
16 (8)