White Mulberry (Morus alba) Foliage Methanolic Extract Can Alleviate Aeromonas hydrophila Infection in African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus)

Table 5

Experiment 2: hematological and biochemical indices in African catfish fed different amounts (2, 5 or 7 g/kg dry matter) of Morus alba foliage extract (MFE) with infection of fish with A. hydrophila (I) and compared to controls without or with a supplement of antibiotic oxytetracycline. (A) and without or with infection of fish with A. hydrophila (I).

Parameters	Diets^1
	CNT2	CNT2-I	CNT2-I-A	MFE-2-I	MFE-5-I	MFE-7-I
Red blood cells (10^6/μL)	2.87 ± 0.06^a	2.45 ± 0.04^b	2.83 ± 0.03^a	2.52 ± 0.07^b	2.49 ± 0.05^b	2.79 ± 0.03^a
White blood cells (10^5/μL)	3.62 ± 0.07^b	4.05 ± 0.08^a	3.50 ± 0.12^b	3.98 ± 0.09^a	3.88 ± 0.11^a	3.54 ± 0.10^b
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	10.04 ± 0.65^a	8.65 ± 0.47^b	9.96 ± 0.30^a	8.45 ± 0.62^b	9.52 ± 0.51^ab	10.21 ± 0.75^a
Hematocrit (%)	43.2 ± 3.4^a	30.7 ± 3.9^b	45.0 ± 2.6^a	27.6 ± 3.3^b	37.3 ± 3.5^ab	38.7 ± 4.8^a
Total protein (g/100 mL)	46.6 ± 2.9^ab	32.2 ± 3.0^c	52.2 ± 2.4^a	31.0 ± 2.8^c	35.5 ± 2.5^b	48.3 ± 3.1^a
Albumin (g/100 mL)	22.7 ± 2.6^a	14.8 ± 3.0^b	25.9 ± 2.7^a	15.2 ± 2.2^b	17.2 ± 2.4^b	23.1 ± 3.2^a
Globulin (g/100 mL)	23.9 ± 3.2^a	17.4 ± 3.1^b	26.3 ± 2.1^a	15.8 ± 3.4^b	18.3 ± 2.6^ab	25.2 ± 3.0^a

Means within the same row with different superscript letters are significantly different ().
¹CNT2, control in Experiment 2; CNT2-I, fish infected with A. hydrophila and fed the control diet without any additive; CNT2-I-A, fish infected with A. hydrophila and fed the control diet supplemented with the antibiotic oxytetracycline (1 g/199 g DM), while MFE-2-I, MFE-5-I, and MFE-7-I were control diet plus 2, 5, or 7 g/kg Morus alba foliage extract, respectively, and infected with A.hydrophila. Values are the treatment means ± standard error.