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Table 2 Relationship between average T90 and the concentrations of the drugs tested

From: Effect of flubendazole on developing stages of Loa loa in vitro and in vivo: a new approach for screening filaricidal agents

Drug

Concentration (μg/ml)

Average T90 ± SD

Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test

Spearman’s rank correlation

χ 2

df

P-value

rho

P-value

DMSO (0.1%)

11.08 ± 0.35

–

–

–

–

–

FLBZ

0.05

5.10 ± 0.1

18.974

5

0.001944

-0.970

<0.0001

0.1

5.05 ± 0.08

0.5

3.15 ± 0.66

1

1.97 ± 0.06

10

1.10 ± 0.14

HFLBZ

0.05

10.46 ± 0.18

19.043

5

0.001887

-0.974

<0.0001

0.1

10.20 ± 0.35

0.5

7.21 ± 0.63

1

5.03 ± 0.36

10

1.90 ± 0.14

RFLBZ

0.05

5.52 ± 1.01

18.506

5

0.002374

-0.934

<0.0001

0.1

5.93 ± 0.33

0.5

4.87 ± 0.28

1

3.54 ± 0.25

10

2.85 ± 0.21

  1. Abbreviations: DMSO dimethylsulfoxide, FLBZ flubendazole, HFLBZ hydrolysed flubendazole, RFLBZ reduced flubendazole, SD standard deviation, T90 Mean duration at which 90% of worm motility were scored 3