Table 3.
Reactions of naive sheep and of sheep previously inoculated with T. lestoquardi to inoculation with T. annulata (Exp IIb)
| Clinical, parasitological and haematological parameters | Sheep number |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naive |
Previously inoculated |
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| S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 | S1 | S2 | S3 | S6 | |
| First day of fever >39.8°C | 8 | 8 | 7 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total number of days with fever | 4 | 5 | 3 | - | – | – | – | 3 |
| Max. temperature (°C) | 40.1 | 41.2 | 40.0 | – | – | – | – | 40.0 |
| First day of schizont detection in lymph node | 5 | – | 7 | – | – | – | – | – |
| First day of piroplasm detection | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 6 | 2 |
| Peak piroplasm parasitaemia (%) | – | – | – | – | <0.5 | – | <0.5 | <0.5 |
| Fall in WBC (%) | 25 | 24 | 7 | 12 | 103a | 15 | 23 | 127a |
| Fall in PCV (%) | 14 | – | 15 | 19 | 9 | – | 17 | 7 |
| Survival (s) or day of death/euthanasia | s | s | s | s | s | s | s | s |
a
Increase in WBC expressed as percentage of pre-infection level.