Translations:Advanced Field Epi:Manual 2 - Diagnostic Tests/153/en

In this situation, it is important to realise that testing for disease at the group or aggregate level incorporates a number of factors additional to those relevant to testing at the individual animal level. Thus, tests which may be highly sensitive and specific at the individual animal level can still result in misclassification of a high proportion of groups where only a small number of animals in each group are tested.