Table 1.

Oocyst shedding and presence of diarrhoea^* in control (treatment and excipient) and treated groups of lambs experimentally infected with C. parvum “cattle” genotype

Lamb age (days)	Treatment control						Excipient control						Prophylactic/therapeutic treatment 1 (Bobel-24 at 50 mg/kg of body weight)
	1	2	3	4	5	6	1	2	3	4	5	6	1	2	3	4	5	6
5	1d	1d	2d	2d	1d	1d	2d	3d	1d	2d	1d	1d	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	4d	2d	4d	2d	2d	3d	3d	3d	2d	4d	3d	2d	0	0	0	0	0	1
7	4d	4d	4d	4d	3d	4d	3d	3d	3d	3d	4d	2d	0	0	1d	0	0	1
8	4d	4d	3d	3d	3d	3d	3d	2d	3d	2d	3d	4d	0	0	1d	1	1	2d
9	3d	4d	2d	3d	2d	3d	2d	2d	2d	1d	3d	4d	0	0	2d	1	0	1
10	3d	3d	2d	2d	1	2d	1	2d	1d	1d	3d	3d	0	1	1	2	0	1
11	2d	3d	2d	2	1	2	1	2d	1	1	3d	3d	0	1	1	2	0	0
12	1d	2d	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2d	2d	0	1	1	3	0	0
13	1d	2	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	2d	2d	0	1	1	2	0	0
14	1d	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	2d	2d	0	1	0	1	0	0
15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0

Lamb age (days)	Prophylactic/theraeutic treatment 2 (Bobel-24 at 500 mg/kg of body weight)						Therapeutic treatment (Bobel-24 at 500 mg/kg of body weight)
	1	2	3	4	5	6	1	2	3	4	5	6
5	0	0	2d	0	2d	2d	1	1	1	1	0	1
6	2d	0	3d	4d	3d	2d	1	1	1	1	2	1
7	2d	2	2d	3d	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2
8	1	1	2	3	2	3d	2d	2d	2	2	2	2
9	1	1	1	2	1	3d	2d	2d	2	2	1	2
10	1	0	1	2	1	2	3d	2	1	1	1	2
11	0	0	1	1	0	1	3d	2	1	1	2	2
12	0	0	0	1	0	1	2d	1	1	0	2	3
13	0	0	0	0	0	0	2d	0	1	0	4	4
14	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	3	2
15	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	2
16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	0	0	0	0	0	0a	0	0	0	0	0	0

d, Diarrhoea; 0 (no oocyst), 1 (≤1 oocyst), 2 (2–5 oocysts), 3 (6–10 oocysts), 4 (>10 oocysts).

^aDied.