Research Article
Experimental Evaluation of the Pathogenicity of Different Strains of Schistosoma mansoni
Table 5
Mean numbers (log) of S. mansoni eggs from mice infected with the BH, SJ, and SD strains per gram of feces.
| | S. mansoni strain | Number of infected mice | Number of eggs (log-mean) | Duncan’s
test* | Infection Time (week) |
| | SJ | 10 | 1.417 | A | 3rd | | BH | 15 | 0.944 | A | | SD | 10 | 0.000 | A | | SJ | 10 | 3.186 | A | 4th | | BH | 15 | 0.944 | A | | SD | 10 | 0.000 | A | | SJ | 10 | 4.342 | A | 5th | | SD | 10 | 3.967 | A | | BH | 15 | 2.409 | B | | SD | 10 | 4.309 | A | 6th | | SJ | 10 | 3.804 | A | | BH | 15 | 3.275 | A | | SD | 10 | 6.787 | A | 7th | | BH | 15 | 6.579 | A | | SJ | 10 | 4.524 | B | | SD | 10 | 7.248 | A | 8th | | BH | 15 | 6.746 | A | | SJ | 10 | 5.563 | B |
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*Means followed by same letter do not differ significantly from each other (α = 0.05).
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