Recommended reporting standards for test accuracy studies of infectious diseases of finfish, amphibians, molluscs and crustaceans: the STRADAS-aquatic checklist

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Richard J. Whittington¹  Mark St. J. Crane¹  Alicia Gallardo Lagno¹  Maureen K. Purcell¹  Isabelle Arzul¹  0¹  Serge Corbeil¹  Kyle A. Garver¹  Thomas B. Waltzek¹  Charles G. B. Caraguel¹  Niels J. Olesen¹  Janet V. Warg¹  Nicholas J. G. Moody¹  Ian A. Gardner¹  Paul Hick¹ 

关键词: Reporting standards;    Sensitivity;    Specificity;    Finfish;    Amphibians;    Molluscs;    Crustaceans;    STRADAS-paraTB;    Diagnostic validation;   

DOI  :  10.3354/dao02947

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Inter-Research

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT: Complete and transparent reporting of key elements of diagnostic accuracy studies for infectious diseases in cultured and wild aquatic animals benefits end-users of these tests, enabling the rational design of surveillance programs, the assessment of test results from clinical cases and comparisons of diagnostic test performance. Based on deficiencies in the Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) guidelines identified in a prior finfish study (Gardner et al. 2014), we adapted the Standards for Reporting of Animal Diagnostic Accuracy Studies—paratuberculosis (STRADAS-paraTB) checklist of 25 reporting items to increase their relevance to finfish, amphibians, molluscs, and crustaceans and provided examples and explanations for each item. The checklist, known as STRADAS-aquatic, was developed and refined by an expert group of 14 transdisciplinary scientists with experience in test evaluation studies using field and experimental samples, in operation of reference laboratories for aquatic animal pathogens, and in development of international aquatic animal health policy. The main changes to the STRADAS-paraTB checklist were to nomenclature related to the species, the addition of guidelines for experimental challenge studies, and the designation of some items as relevant only to experimental studies and ante-mortem tests. We believe that adoption of these guidelines will improve reporting of primary studies of test accuracy for aquatic animal diseases and facilitate assessment of their fitness-for-purpose. Given the importance of diagnostic tests to underpin the Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement of the World Trade Organization, the principles outlined in this paper should be applied to other World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)-relevant species.

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