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

Table 2

Correlation coefficients between parasitological and physiological variables at slaughter.

	^1FEC	^2PCV	^3Eosinophilia
^4Male	0.295*	−0.31*	−0.57*
^5Female	0.02	0.04	0.53*
^6Immature male	−0.11*	−0.11*	0.18*
^7Immature female	−0.33*	0.20*	−0.15*
^8Female length	0.70*	−0.72*	−0.34*

^∗𝑃<0.0001.
¹FEC: fecal egg counts (eggs per gram of feces).
²PCV: packed cell volume.
³Eosinophilia: blood eosinophils (number of cells per mL of blood).
⁴Male: means of adults male worms in abomasal contents.
⁵Female: means of adults female worms in abomasal contents.
⁶Immature male: means of immature male worms in abomasal contents.
⁷Immature female: means of immature female worms in abomasal contents.
⁸Female length: means length (mm) of twenty percent of adult female worms in abomasal contents.