Table 2.

Leucocyte formula of lamina propria cell suspensions from infected and non-infected rats

	Lamina propria cellular suspensions
	Control	3 dpi	6 dpi	13 dpi
Lymphocytes	52.05 ± 1.9a	50.2 ± 2.4	37.2 ± 1.03c	45.4 ± 1.8d
Macrophages	43.4 ± 2.2e	30.1 ± 1.9	32.0 ± 0.8	24.6 ± 5.5f
Eosinophils	2.6 ± 0.9g	13.2 ± 2.4h	24.7 ± 1.9i	20.1 ± 1.1j
Neutrophils	1.2 ± 0.4k	4.5 ± 1.1	5.7 ± 0.4	14.2 ± 1.0l

Notes: Results are expressed as the mean cell percentage obtained for each leucocyte population in lamina propria cell suspensions from infected rats (n = 5/ dpi) and control rats (n = 5) ± SD. Data were analysed by two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s multiple comparisons test (nlme and multcomp packages, respectively; α = 0.05). Letters represent significant differences between infected and control animals: P = 0.0026: c vs a; P = 0.0053: h vs g; P = 0.0004: b vs a; P = 0.0005: d vs a, l vs k; P < 0.0001: c vs a, i vs g, f vs e, j vs g