Table 1.

Descriptive data of the grouping of mice and on the body temperature and clinical score at day 8 p.i

Group	Injection at day 0 p.i.	Treatments day 4–7 p.i.	Body temperature day 8 p.i.	Clinical score day 8 p.i.
UninfSal	Saline	Saline	37.9 ± 0.4	0 ± 0
UninfEPO	Saline	5000 IU EPO/kg	37.3 ± 0.9	0 ± 0
InfSal	104 PbA	Saline	26.9 ± 1.1	3.25 ± 0.5
InfEPO	104 PbA	5000 IU EPO/kg	37.2 ± .6	0.5 ± 0.6

All statistics are given as mean ± standard deviation (SD).