Parasites & Vectors

Table 5 Average weight of individual egg masses for a sample of n egg masses per day per calf

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		Mean per calf
	wt	n	wt	n	wt	n	wt	n	wt	n	wt	n	Mean per calf
Control
C1557	0.146	69	0.150	69	0.131	67	0.136	65	0.116	53	0.100	22	0.130
C1559	0.152	70	0.158	71	0.161	45	0.149	66	0.121	45	0.125	25	0.144
C1560	0.157	71	0.159	69	0.145	67	0.122	68	0.112	49	0.109	11	0.134
Daily mean	0.152		0.156		0.146		0.136		0.116		0.111		0.136
SD	0.0051		0.0049		0.0151		0.0134		0.0048		0.0124		0.007
SEM	0.0030		0.0028		0.0087		0.0077		0.0028		0.0071		0.004
Vaccinated
C1551	0.159	67	0.168	70	0.163	68	0.160	70	0.154	54	0.154	24	0.160
C1553	0.163	71	0.175	70	0.168	71	0.166	72	0.151	67	0.145	15	0.161
C1554	0.166	69	0.168	68	0.160	68	0.168	67	0.146	59	0.141	25	0.158
Daily mean	0.163		0.171		0.164		0.165		0.150		0.147		0.160
SD	0.0037		0.0040		0.0040		0.0042		0.0041		0.0067		0.0016
SEM	0.0021		0.0023		0.0023		0.0024		0.0024		0.0039		0.0009

wt = Average weight in grams for n egg masses from ticks collected on each day. Day of collection = number of days since larval ticks were first applied. n = number of ticks include in the average for the day. SD standard deviation, SEM standard error of the mean

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