Table 3.
Mean live attached tick counts on each treatment group (per protocol population)
| Day of study | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 42 | 56 | 70 | 84 | |
| Lotilaner (n = 127) | |||||||||
| Geometric mean | 6.06 | 0.07a | 0.07 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.02b | 0.05 | 0.00c | 0.00d |
| Arithmetic mean (SD) | 11.61 (28.76) | 0.15 (0.94) | 0.15 (0.76) | 0.58 (5.27) | 0.15 (0.82) | 0.04 (0.30) | 0.28 (2.78) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.00 (0.00) |
| Fipronil/(S)-methoprene (n = 68) | |||||||||
| Geometric mean | 5.01 | 0.17a | 0.11 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.11b | 0.04 | 0.02c | 0.03d |
| Arithmetic mean (SD) | 6.31 (8.06) | 0.40 (1.47) | 0.19 (0.63) | 0.22 (0.65) | 0.18 (0.89) | 0.20 (0.68) | 0.06 (0.30) | 0.03 (0.17) | 0.05 (0.28) |
Abbreviation: SD standard deviation
Numbers within columns with the same superscript are significantly different: a t (190) = 2.37, P = 0.0190; b t (186) = 2.46, P = 0.0148; c t (184) = 2.04, P = 0.0425; d t (178) = 2.33, P = 0.0209