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Table 3 Total number of ticks collected per calf per day

From: Vaccination of cattle with synthetic peptides corresponding to predicted extracellular domains of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus aquaporin 2 reduced the number of ticks feeding to repletion

 

Day of collection

20

21

22

23

24

25

Left on

Total per calf

Control

        

 C1557

506

620

200

103

71

32

32

1564

 C1559

364

672

251

136

61

40

29

1553

 C1560

546

682

190

121

63

26

36

1664

 Daily mean

472

658

214

120

65

33

32

1594

 SD

95.65

33.29

32.72

16.52

5.29

7.02

3.51

61.16

 SEM

55.22

19.22

18.89

9.54

3.06

4.06

2.03

35.31

Vaccinated

        

 C1551

130

574

348

228

74

39

32

1425

 C1553

124

346

260

179

92

25

16

1042

 C1554

156

403

190

225

72

46

43

1135

 Daily mean

137

441

266

211

79

37

30

1201

 SD

17.01

118.65

79.17

27.47

11.02

10.69

13.58

199.77

 SEM

9.82

68.51

45.71

15.86

6.36

6.17

7.84

115.33

  1. Day of collection = number of days since larval ticks were first applied. SD standard deviation, SEM standard error of the mean
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