Table 3.
The number of cats in each groupa with bronchoalveolar lavage eosinophilic cytology after L3 D. immitis infection
| Day 0 | Day 110 | Day 168 | Day 240 | Day 300 | Day 390 | Day 505 | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gradeb | Group | Group | Group | Group | Group | Group | Group | ||||||||||||||
| A | B | C | A | B | C | A | B | C | A | B | C | A | B | C | A | B | C | A | B | C | |
| 0 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 |
| 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
aGroup A (10): selamectin topical initiated on Day 28 PI; Group B (10): oral ivermectin initiated on Day 70 PI; Group C (10): infected no treatment
bGrade 0 < 16%, Grade 1 = 17–35%, Grade 2 = 36–60%, Grade 3 > 61% (percent represents the number of eosinophils compared to total nucleated cells observed)