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Table III.

Effect of Neospora caninum infection on hebdomadal mortality, neonatal morbidity, and neonatal mortality.

N. caninum infected mice group (and control group) Hebdomadal mortality (%) Median health time (days) (average ± SD) Neonatal morbidity (%) Median survival time (days) (average ± SD) Neonatal mortality (%)
Nc-Spain 2H 5/54 (9.2)a 26.4 ± 0.761,2 18/39 (46.1)b,1 28.5 ± 0.471 10/49 (20.4)c,1
Nc-Spain 3H 7/84 (8.3) 28.8 ± 0.422 8/75 (10.6)1,2 29.4 ± 0.271,2 6/77 (7.7)1,2
Nc-Spain 4H 15/66 (22.7) 11 ± 0.43 51/51 (100)3 11.1 ± 0.43 51/51 (100)3
Nc-Spain 5H 12/88 (13.6) 15.3 ± 0.494 74/75 (98.6)3 17.1 ± 0.594 73/76 (96)3
Nc-Spain 6 2/59 (3.3) 25.3 ± 0.961 19/55 (34.5)1 26.6 ± 0.81 17/57 (29.8)1
Nc-Spain 7 7/68 (10.2) 16.1 ± 0.584 59/60 (98.3)3 17.4 ± 0.614 58/61 (95)3
Nc-Spain 8 11/99 (11.1) 29.4 ± 0.282 4/85 (4.7)2 29.9 ± 02 1/88 (1.1)2
Nc-Spain 9 8/51 (15.6) 24.8 ± 1.11 16/41 (39)1 26.4 ± 0.891 14/43 (32.5)1
Nc-Spain 10 10/77 (12.9) 26.1 ± 0.961,2 12/47 (25.5)1 27 ± 0.871 12/67 (17.9)1
Nc-Liverpool 3/39 (7.6) 12.1 ± 0.73 36/36 (100)3 12.5 ± 0.673 36/36 (100)3
Control 11/91 (12) 30 ± 0 0/80 (0) 30 ± 0 0/80 (0)
a,b,c

Number of stillborn and dead pups at day 2 PP (% hebdomadal mortality), number of clinically affected neonates from day 2 PP onwards (% neonatal morbidity), and number of dead neonates from day 2 PP onwards (% neonatal mortality), according to superscript/number of total pups born.

1,2,3,4

Median and percentages determined for infected groups followed by unlike superscripts differ significantly by logrank and χ2 multiple-comparison test, respectively.