Table 1. Effect of exposure to Euphorbia milii latex on the adult parasite fitness parameters.

Control group was composed with of 18 mice infected with 150 mock treated cercariae per mouse and exposed group was composed of 57 mice infected with 150 exposed cercariae per mouse. All infections were performed by standard percutaneous inoculation and mixed sexes. Comparisons between groups were done by Student´s t-test.

	Adult parasites per mouse	Recovered couples per mouse	Eggs per female parasite	Egg released per mouse	Sex ratio (male/female)	Granuloma size (mm x 10−3)
Control	28.9±9.7	8.2±4.5	0.79±0.1	30.7±3.4	0.83±0.06	2.0±0.5
Exposed	18.0±11.5*	4.4±4.0**	0.17±0.1**	3.3±2.9*	0.93±0.03*	1.8±0.3*

Asterisks indicate statistically significant difference between control and exposed group in the same parameter

*P ≤ 0.01

** P ≤ 0.001).