A Study of the Granulomatous Responses Induced by Different Strains of Schistosoma mansoni

Table 1

The table presents the mean number of cercariae and male and female trematodes that were recovered from mice exposed to 100 cercariae of the S. mansoni BH strain and inoculated 8 weeks later with eggs from the S. mansoni BH (Group III) or SJ (Group IV) strains. The mice were euthanized 1, 8, 15, and 34 days after being inoculated with eggs in the caudal vein.

Group	Infecting cercariae	Female	Male	Total trematodes	Duncan’s test
III	94.90				A
IV	95.00				A
III		17.75			A
IV		9.10			B
III			18.87		A
IV			8.50		B
III				36.62	A
IV				17.60	B

There is no significant difference between means with the same letter (𝛼=0.05).