Effect of Experimental Infection with Haemonchus contortus on Parasitological and Local Cellular Responses in Resistant and Susceptible Young Creole Goats

Table 1

Means of worm count in abomasal contents at 49 days postinfection for challenge 1 and 42 days postinfection for challenge 2.

	Challenge 1			Challenge 2			^5𝑃 value
	^1R	^2S	^3𝑃 value	^1R	^2S	^4𝑃 value
^6Male	234±66	120±147	0.49	203±66	195±65	0.93	0.81
^7Female	241±59	118±72	0.19	234±59	178±59	0.51	0.45
^8Immature male	5±7	31±8	0.65	15±8	36±9	0.21	0.02
^9Immature female	19±18	24±22	0.56	46±18	71±18	0.53	0.05
^10Female length	18.8±0.5	21.0±1.0	0.07	18.0±5	18.2±0.6	0.8	0.02

1R: resistant kids.
²S: susceptible kids.
³𝑃 value: comparing means of worm counts in abomasal contents of resistant and susceptible kids after challenge 1.
⁴𝑃 value: comparing means of worm counts in abomasal contents of resistant and susceptible kids after challenge 2.
⁵𝑃 value: comparing means worm counts in abomasal contents after challenge 1 and challenge 2.
⁶Male: means of adults male worms in abomasal contents.
⁷Female: means of adults female worms in abomasal contents.
⁸Immature male: means of immature male worms in abomasal contents.
⁹Immature female: means of immature female worms in abomasal contents.
¹⁰Female length: means length (mm) of twenty percent of adult female worms in abomasal contents.