Table 4.
ELISA results (% OD) based on a visually estimated percentage of affected skin [17] in Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) sampled in the Sierra Nevada Natural and National Parks
| Healthy | Mildly infested | Severely infested | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD | |
| ELISA A | 85 | 9.50 | 28.55 | 31 | 19.46 | 33.49 | 12 | 24.28 | 41.43 |
| ELISA B | 74 | 7.63 | 9.45 | 30 | 13.76 | 19.61 | 13 | 34.71 | 28.72 |
| ELISA C* | 77 | 47.61a | 26.45 | 30 | 137.86b | 41.59 | 13 | 168.16b | 25.62 |
*Kruskal-Wallis test: χ 2 = 73.99, df = 2, P < 0.0001; a,b means with different superscripts are statistically different
Abbreviation: SD standard deviation