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Table 2 Eye-fluke burden at day 0 (prior to the treatment), drugs administered for each case and treatment outcomes

From: Recent large-scale philophthalmosis outbreak in Portugal: inefficacy of common antihelminthic agents

Gull ID

Species

No. of worms at day 0

Treatment

Treatment outcomes

Right eye

Left eye

Day 7

Day 14

Day 21

Day 28

Day 35

Study arm 1

 1

L. fuscus

0

2

Levamisol

No change

No change

No change

No change

No change

 2

L. fuscus

 > 50

 > 50

Levamisol

No change

No change

No change

No change

No change

 3

L. michahellis

 > 50

 > 50

Levamisol

No change

No change

No change

No change

 

 4

L. michahellis

 > 10

 > 5

Levamisol

No change

No change

No change

No change

 

Study arm 2

 5

L. fuscus

 > 5

 > 5

Milbemycin + praziquantel

No change

No change

Dead

  

 6

L. fuscus

0

1

Milbemycin + praziquantel

No change

No change

No change

  

 7

L. fuscus

 > 5

 > 5

Milbemycin + praziquantel

No change

No change

No change

  

Study arm 3

 8

L. fuscus

 > 5

 > 5

Ivermectin

No change

No change

No change

  

 9

L. michahellis

0

1

Ivermectin

No change

No change

No change

  

 10

L. fuscus

 < 5

 < 5

Ivermectin

No change

No change

No change

  

 11

L. fuscus

5

5

Ivermectin

No change

No change

No change

  

 12

L. fuscus

10

10

Ivermectin

No change

No change

No change

  

 13

L. fuscus

 < 5

 < 5

Ivermectin

No change

No change

No change

  

 14

L. fuscus

1

2

Ivermectin

No change

No change

No change