Experimental Evaluation of the Pathogenicity of Different Strains of Schistosoma mansoni

Table 4

Mean areas of the hepatic and intestinal granulomas at the eighth week of infection in mice infected with BH, SJ, and SD strains of S. mansoni.

S.mansoni  strain	Number of granulomas	Granuloma area (mean) 𝜇m^2		Duncan’s; test*
		Hepatic	Intestinal
SD	206	132194		A
BH	403	111586		B
SJ	137	109472		B
SD	32		78313	A
BH	41		72340	A
SJ	16		38667	B

*Means followed by same letter do not differ significantly from each other (α = 0.05).