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. 2014 May 20;9(5):e97716. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097716

Table 4. Effect of IgY against diarrhea in Mice.

Study No. of mortality by diarrhea (or) No. with diarrhea/No. in Group (%) Outcome measure considered - Mortality (M) or Diarrhea (D) Relative Risk (RR) 95% Confidence Interval (CI)
Intervention Control
Animal Class: Mice
Bacterial Pathogen
Peralta 1994 6/27 (22) 17/25 (68) M 0.327 0.154 to 0.695
Yokoyama 1998 3/15 (20) 12/15 (80) M 0.250 0.0881 to 0.710
6/10 (60) 10/10 (100) M 0.600 0.362 to 0.995
Jacoby 2001 2/10 (20) 4/10 (40) D 0.500 0.117 to 2.139
Wang 2010 0/12 (0) 12/12 (100) M 0.040 0.00265 to 0.605
Neri 2011 0/6 (0) 5/6 (83) M 0.091 0.00621 to 1.330
Parma 2011 0/4 (0) 4/4 (100) M 0.111 0.00814 to 1.516
Feng 2013 0/5 (0) 4/5 (80) M 0.111 0.00768 to 1.608
Viral Pathogen
Bartz 1980 3/20 (15) 30/33 (91) D 0.165 0.0578 to 0.471
Hatta 1993 0/16(0) 14/16(83) D 0.035 0.00224 to 0.532
4/12 (37) 12/12 (100) D 0.333 0.150 to 0.742
Kuroki 1993 1/12 (8.33) 11/12 (91) D 0.091 0.0138 to 0.598
2/12 (16.6) 11/12 (91) D 0.182 0.0507 to 0.652
Sarker 2007 1/15 (6) 10/15 (67) D 0.100 0.0146 to 0.687
Ngyuen 2010 0/6 (0) 6/6 (100) M 0.077 0.00536 to 1.103
Liou 2010 0/21 (0) 21/23 (91) M 0.026 0.00164 to 0.395
5/25 (20) 16/26 (62) M 0.325 0.140 to 0.753
5/16 (31) 17/22 (77) M 0.404 0.189 to 0.866
1/19 (5) 6/19 (32) M 0.167 0.0221 to 1.255
2/19 (11) 4/19 (21) M 0.500 0.104 to 2.412
Buragohain 2012 7/21 (33) 23/23 (100) D 0.333 0.182 to 0.610
0/19 (0) 9/18 (50) D 0.050 0.00312 to 0.798
Pooled random effects 0.250 0.175 to 0.358

Test for Heterogeneity: Q = 36.17; DF = 21; P = 0.0209, I2 = 41.94% (95% CI for I2 = 3.60 to 65.03).