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Table 2.

Number of fever relapses and antibody immunofluorescent (IFA) titre to E. equi in twenty lambs during the first 4 months of an E. phagocytophila infection. The lambs were inoculated with E. phagocytophila infected blood when they were 12–14 days old and 6–8 months old, respectively.

Age	n	Number of fever relapses ***	IFA-titre(log₁₀)		Number of lambs found infected with Ehrlichia after 4 months

			(day 30) ***	(day 120)
12–14 days	6	3.17 ± 0.898	2.25 ± 0.270	1.90 ± 0.00#	6 of 6 (100%)
6–8 months	14	1.14 ± 0.833	2.99 ± 0.335	2.20 ± 0.233	13 of 14 (93%)

# only one lamb was found seropositive

*** (p < 0.001, two-sample t-test)